DS Jessica Daniel (5 books in series)

Kilitli (2012)
language
English
3.67 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: A rather plodding police procedural with some pretty lame dialogue in the early parts of the book. It might have been throughout but I was skim-reading by then. I struggled to get into it and there was no sense of drama or tension. There was too much boring detail in some parts. ...
Vigilante (2013)
language
English
4.02 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: This one was ok - better than the first but still a little irritating in places. I think the main reason for that is Jessica is not a very sympathetic character! It's hard to read a novel where you're seeing it all through the eyes of someone quite so hard-faced. The twist was be...
Playing With Fire (2013)
language
English
4.24 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: Another great book by Kerry Wilkinson in the Jessica Daniels series. Jessica, a Detective Sergeant in Manchester, is trying to solve the case of a series of house fires in her area. Fast paced and full of suspense and action and great to see the progression of the relationships b...
Think of the Children (2013)
language
English
3.97 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: jessica daniels is fast turning into one of my favourite book characters. Being a mancunian I know the areas she lives in, works in and visits so their is an immediate sense of being able to identify. But ot is more than that I love the way that Kerry Wilkinson draws his charac...
Locked In (2013)
language
English
3.67 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: I actually just bought the book for the author's name originally, seeing as it is (well, was) my name too. It reads a bit like a young adult/teen book in places where maybe the dialogue is a little stilted or a word is repeated several times (e.g. "giggling" seemed to crop up a l...