Special Agent Jessica Bishop is back, or steal a phrase from my favourite TV show, “Very Special Agent” Jessica Bishop is back. My God is she “Special”
I love quirky characters in books. There is so much similarity out there today amongst fictional crime fighters, and it’s the quirky ones that stand out.
Bishop stands out in a great way. Psychologically she has problems, in this book these problems are confounded as she is still recovering from injuries she sustained during her last investigation. Her mental health is on even more of a knife edge after injuring her friend and FBI partner Jameson during the same investigation.
They are thrown back into work when they are cleared for duty days after each other and re-join their old team.
Bishop thinks she has identified a serial killer who is praying on vulnerable children. At first, she is not taken seriously, but as the body count rises everybody begins to realise she’s onto something.
Partnered with a member of the team that is more interested in hitting on women and avoiding conflict, than actually doing any work, Bishop finds work infuriating. Jameson wants to help but she is keeping him at arms-length.
Her head is completely scrambled and she is fighting inner demons as she tries to find the killer, with an ineffectual partner.
From the very start of this book I was immediately gripped by the story of Bishops internal fights, as much as I was with the story of the crime. Both stories are brilliant but for me it’s the fight Bishop is having with herself that makes this book stand out.
There is no down time in this book. It is full on from page 1 to the full stop on the last sentence. I didn’t see the end coming, partially because I was so engrossed I didn’t realise I was coming to the end. The story is full of twists and turns, none of which are predictable, but all of which make sense.
This book can be read as a stand-alone novel, but I would highly recommend reading Now You See Me the first book in the series.
https://nigeladamsbookworm.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/now-you-see-me-kierney-scott/
Jess Bishop is emerging as one of the great characters of modern crime fiction, and to get the best from her, you need to know her story.
I loved this book, I loved the first one, I really can’t wait for the 3rd.
Pages: 242
Published by: Bookouture
Publishing date: 25th April 2018
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