Already Dead
Jaye Ford
Reviewed by Helen
This is a compelling page turner of a story, when out of work reporter Miranda Jack, Jax to her friends, who is on her way to starting a new life for herself and her six year old daughter Zoe, has her life changed again when Brendan Walsh steps into her car with a gun.
Jax is determined to go forward with her daughter Zoe and make a fresh start living by the beach in Newcastle with her aunt, after losing her husband Nick in a hit and run accident that has left her searching for answers to why this has happened, her relationship with the homicide detective on the case is not good at all and now a man with a gun steps into her car at a set of traffic lights and forces her to drive on up the motorway.
Although terrified Jax is doing her best to calm this man in her car and asks him his name he replies already dead. As she asks more questions of this man who seems to be bouncing from a paranoid world of his own and back to nearly normal she learns a lot from him and knows that part of the reason he has her driving him away from Sydney.
It is two hours of driving for Jax before the ordeal is finally over in a terrible way but this leaves Jax with more questions than answers and the journalist inside her will never give up on trying to find out what really was happening in this man’s life, a man who served his country in some terrible places, a man who has a wife and child.
Jax wants answers and has many questions to ask, even if these questions and her digging puts her in more danger. I have never met a more determined character one who has so many questions, I loved her strength and courage after all that she had been through in her life. There are many fabulous characters, good and bad that add to this story. This is must read story that had me engrossed from start to finish, I loved getting to know Jax and was on the edge of my seat through this suspenseful thriller, this is one that I would highly recommend, I loved it.
My thanks to the author for my digital copy to read and review.
Jax is determined to go forward with her daughter Zoe and make a fresh start living by the beach in Newcastle with her aunt, after losing her husband Nick in a hit and run accident that has left her searching for answers to why this has happened, her relationship with the homicide detective on the case is not good at all and now a man with a gun steps into her car at a set of traffic lights and forces her to drive on up the motorway.
Although terrified Jax is doing her best to calm this man in her car and asks him his name he replies already dead. As she asks more questions of this man who seems to be bouncing from a paranoid world of his own and back to nearly normal she learns a lot from him and knows that part of the reason he has her driving him away from Sydney.
It is two hours of driving for Jax before the ordeal is finally over in a terrible way but this leaves Jax with more questions than answers and the journalist inside her will never give up on trying to find out what really was happening in this man’s life, a man who served his country in some terrible places, a man who has a wife and child.
Jax wants answers and has many questions to ask, even if these questions and her digging puts her in more danger. I have never met a more determined character one who has so many questions, I loved her strength and courage after all that she had been through in her life. There are many fabulous characters, good and bad that add to this story. This is must read story that had me engrossed from start to finish, I loved getting to know Jax and was on the edge of my seat through this suspenseful thriller, this is one that I would highly recommend, I loved it.
My thanks to the author for my digital copy to read and review.
5 stars
Published January 20th 2022 by Jaye Ford (first published September 1st 2014)
