Crossing the Line

In Kerry Wilkinson's Crossing the Line, the 8th installment in the Jessica Daniel serial thriller series, this novel would make you think twice on what you do and to whom you do it to. It all started when someone assaulted a solicitor by throwing  citric acid on their face. That had put Detective Inspector Jessica Daniel on the scene with her partner Isobel to dig deep into the background of their first victim. Later on, then someone else was assaulted by a bat, someone who's bearing a mask from an Anarchy group and making a scathing statement. While this was going on, Jessica dealt with the heat from her police department and then of her mother, when she went searching for Tony Franingham, someone she had met in the past and having issues with drugs. While they kept an eye for an elusive drug dealer, they've come across a third victim and tried to put the pieces together to form this big puzzle. But during a festival, someone close to her had become attacked by the same masked person. While the picture had grown to a bigger mystery, they started to connect the dots to connect them to their perp... the connection is unpredictable and unfathomable. When they have found the guy, she dealt with the kidnapping to someone at the force, someone who needed to make a bold statement about one of their own's false accusations about the Stretford Slasher's arrest. In the end, Jessica fights for her life to deal with the drug dealer in a battle of wit and brawn to solve both cases.

This was a gripping and a bit disturbing thriller in the midst of the series. I did care for Jessica and what she went through at home and at the police station. She had a whole lot going on at the same time. And I believe Adam could be perfect for her. I do like the storyline and the plot, which sent me chills and kept me on my toes. I did like her DI Jack Cole. The locations were perfect in Stetford and Manchestershire, England with gripping scenic settings.  This would make you hold your breath, shake your head, moan and squeeze your eyes shut with nonstop action, drama, suspense and a lot of mystery.


 Will you be crossing the line tonight?