The Unquiet Dead
Jessie Driver returns in the second of this fresh, streetwise London-based series from ‘the new Mistress of Thrillers’ Sunday Express
The decaying Marshall Street Baths in the heart of Soho are a den for drug-users and the homeless – the perfect hang-out for a teenage runaway. But when DI Jessie Driver goes there in search of a missing girl, she finds something quite different: the mummified body of a man, buried in the rat-infested basement. Who was he? And how does this murder relate to the tragic drowning of a young boy years earlier?
Jessie’s investigation takes her on a journey through the past – the kidnapping of a little girl; the descent into madness of a bereaved father – but the dangers she’ll face are very much in the present.
Reviews for Gay Longworth’s Jessie Driver novels: -
‘The real mistress of thrillers’ Sunday Express -
‘Filled with wit and suspense’ The Times -
‘Dead Alone is packed with suspense and well drawn characters. Gripping stuff’ Women’s Way -
‘Gay Longworth has written a taut thriller that is crying out for the TV treatment. One for the sisters’ Ireland on Sunday -
‘A classy, extremely proficient debut for Longworth, with solid plotting, believable CID rivalries, and an admirable heroine in Jessie’ Kirkus -
'So realistic and gripping, it's enough to make you re-think your whole career' Jamie Theakston -