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Publication Date: 28 February 2023
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Extent: 352 pp
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ISBN: 9780857308375

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CUT ADRIFT

A Times Thriller of the Year - 'trimly steered and freighted with contemporary resonance'

A Jen Shaw Mystery No. 2


From the author of On The Edge, a Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, comes the second instalment in the action-packed, 'pulse-pounding' Jen Shaw series.

Jen Shaw is climbing in the mountains near Alajar, Spain. And it's nothing to do with the fact that an inscrutable acquaintance suggested that she meet him there...

But when things don't go as planned and her brother calls to voice concerns over the whereabouts of their mother, Morwenna, Jen finds herself travelling to a refugee camp on the south coast of Malta.

Free-spirited and unpredictable as ever, Morwenna is working with a small NGO, helping her Libyan friend, Nahla, seek asylum for her family. Jen is instantly out of her depth, surrounded by stories of unimaginable suffering and increasing tensions within the camp.

Within hours of Jen's arrival, Nahla is killed in suspicious circumstances, and Jen and Morwenna find themselves responsible for the safety of her daughters. But what if the safest option is to leave on a smuggler's boat?

READER REVIEWS FOR CUT ADRIFT

'The author is very good at creating a tense narrative, and the choice of subject lends itself incredibly well to taut storytelling'
TripFiction
'This was a page turning thriller, with a heroine I really enjoyed spending time with'
H. Baxter, Netgalley
''After a gentle start we have a great set up for another skin of the teeth adventure, that is a search and rescue one which includes an against the clock chase and plenty of danger''
P. Fleming, Peter Turns The Page blog
PRESS REVIEWS FOR Cut Adrift

'An original voice in crime fiction'
- Sunday Times (A Best Crime Novel of 2023) 

'Jesmond's flawed characters add depth and complexity to a story that wears its sentiments on its sleeve, but is freighted with contemporary resonance'
- Times (A Best Thriller Book of 2023) 

'Jesmond's delineation of her characters as people with plausible flaws and hot tempers adds depth and complexity to a story that might wear its sentiments on its sleeves, yet which is trimly steered and freighted with contemporary resonance'
- Times (Thriller Book of the Month) 

'Jesmond's novel is a page-turner, showing how genre conventions can be used to reveal a personal tragedy'
- Times (Best Books of the Summer) 

'In an over-saturated market, finding a new voice with something compelling to say in the crime writing field can be difficult. Thankfully there are people out there trying to deliver a twist on the genre, and Jane Jesmond is one of them'
- On Yorkshire Magazine 

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