Guest Post: Introducing Scarred for Life by Kerry Wilkinson

It's only been in the last couple of years that I have started reading crime novels again, a genre I loved reading as a teen, and one of the series I keep meaning to start reading when I see the next book being published is the Jessica Daniel series by Kerry Wilkinson.  

But as I like to read a series from the beginning to see the development of characters, I have some catching up to do as the ninth book in the series Scarred for Life has just been published so maybe that can be my challenge to myself later in the year when my redundancy eventually comes through.... 

Kerry has kindly written a guest piece for the blog introducing Scarred for Life.

Fictional detectives get away with a lot of things. That includes going against authority, working outside of rules, guidelines and often the law itself. Between the pages of a crime novel, that’s all fun and games until someone actually gets hurt. Scarred for Life is my latest Jessica Daniel book and, perhaps for the first time, it’s about consequences.

It begins with a young rower who ends up in a wheelie bin at the back of his team’s clubhouse. Jessica suspects he might have been ‘hazed’ by his fellow members – but proving it isn’t so easy. She’s been broadly allowed to do her own thing for a while and I wanted to flip that around to show there are side-effects to that freedom.