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DEAD ALONE
by Gay Longworth
St. Martin's Minotaur, January 2003
336 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0312310617


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Jessie Drive, a motorbike-riding female police officer loves being back in London at West End Central, the youngest DI on the Area Major Investigating team responsible for a large proportion of Central London. It does of course have itıs down side, in the guise of Mark Ward, her professional equal, and her personal opposite. Life however is good for Jessie, sharing a flat with Maggie hall, TV presenter, gets her invited to some fun events, very different from her life at West End Central.

These lives however, begin to merge when Maggie is trashed by one Joshua Cadell on the Ray St Giles chat show, for Ray St Giles is the man who shot an innocent passer-by Trevor Mills during a robbery, and for which Raymond Giles was sentenced to 16 years for manslaughter, but has now served his time and is making his name as a chat show host. But for Clare Mills, the nightmare stills goes on, as she searches for her brother Frank who was taken into care, the day of her fatherıs funeral and the day Clareıs mother committed suicide. For along with DCI Jones, Jessie is charged to find Frank.

When Jessie is sent out to investigate a headless corpse washed up on the banks of the Thames, she realises that she has been set­up by her colleague DI Ward, so she decides to play it by the book. But what she suspects is a prank turns out to be very serious, when bizarre evidence points to a minor celebrity. Then other celebrity corpses turn up and Jessie is running her first murder enquiry.

Then Jessie finds herself attracted by a key suspect and puts her own life in danger.

I liked Jessie enormously, but found Maggie rather irritating. I donıt want to give anything away but the identification of the corpse was both bizarre and fascinating, had me hooked.

Note: This review is based on the UK edition. The American edition will be published in January 2003

Reviewed by Lizzie Hayes, December 2002

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