Jail Bird by Jessie KeaneMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Time taken to read - 1 day
Publisher - Harper (Harper Collins Publishers)
Blurb from Goodreads
Murder, loyalty and vengeance collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty fourth novel.
Lily King has spent years behind bars
Convicted of murdering her husband, London villain Leo King, she hasn’t been missed. Everyone believes she got what she deserved, but Lily knows she was fitted up.
Now she’s out, and she doesn’t do forgiveness. In her absence, things have moved on and the old order has changed. But now she’s ready to reclaim her position as head of the King family.
Fuelled by vengeance, Lily King is back, and some people aren’t going to know what’s hit them.
My review
We start off in 1996, introduced to Leo King, a man whose reputation proceeds him both with the ladies and in the criminal world. We then jump to Lily, Leo's wife and the night her life was turned upside down, still in 1996. Chapter 3 takes us to 2009 and sees Lily released from prison, jailed for the murder of her husband. Lily is ready to do some digging and set the record set, not every one is happy to see her and less believe she is innocent. What follows will stir up a lot of emotions, secrets and violence.
This is a great story and you get pulled into the drama straight away, I was up to 4am as I wanted to find out what happened. There is a few red herrings along the way or maybe I just watched too much murder she wrote as a child as I thought I knew who the killer was a few time, I was wrong every time.
The characters are quite well done, I have to say though Lily really annoyed me quite a lot by her stupid rash actions as sometimes she seemed quite with it and level headed then she would do something idiotic. Some of her responses irked me too as you know reading it if someone challenged you in the way she was you would react very differently. The brothers Si and Freddy, well more Si actually as Freddy is a hot head grated me as you would imagine he would approach Lily when he knew she was digging around. Small things like that is why the book lost a star however overall it was really good and by the end you have an answer for all your questions. I have enjoyed this author so much I bought all the rest in the series, 4/5 for me this time.
This sounds good, especially if you were up late reading it. Rash actions from characters annoy me too though.
ReplyDeleteThis almost reminds me of a film with Ashley Judd called Double Jeopardy. The wife is framed for the husbands murder, serves the jail time, but when she's released, she finds out the husband is alive, has changed his identity and is living the rich life of a playboy.
It must be good if you bought all the rest! I may well give this one a go, thanks for an excellent review.
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