Dead Alone

A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie Driver Jessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an attitude and more than a few resentful male colleagues. When one of them sends her to check out a headless skeleton washed up on the banks of the Thames, Jessie is furious. But this case is far from routine: the bones have been bleached, and floating nearby like a pair of jellyfish are the only source of identification -- the victim's silicone implants. Soon Jessie is on the trail of a vicious killer who seems to be targeting B-list celebrities -- the owner of the implants is the first, but not the only, wannabe to show more meet a sticky end. Under a media spotlight, Jessie's given the chance to prove once and for all that she has what it takes to handle a high-profile investigation. But when she becomes dangerously involved with a key suspect, her detached professionalism seems to fly out the window, and soon her own life could be in danger. [return][return][return]The way this was written - e.g. lots of semi-cryptic asides - it seemed to be partway through a series of books, but reading the blurb at the front it is apparently the first.[return][return]It was ok, once in a while good to see a UK based crime story. show less

Dit eerste deel is ,naar mijn idee, een aanrader. Het was spannend. Onvoorspelbaar en het plot erg verrassend. Dit is het boek wat ik had van Corine Hartman met Bloedlijn had verwacht. Een zelfstandige sterke vrouw die politie inspecteur is en zich op een eigen manier handhaaft in de mannenwereld. Ik ga nu beginnen in het tweede boek van deze auteur met weer Jessica Driver in de hoofdrol. Helaas heeft zij ook niet meer boeken geschreven.