The Edge – A Brilliant Ruby Darke Thriller

Jessie Keane is one of the top thriller writers in the country, and each book she writes is better than the last. The Edge is the third instalment in the Ruby Darke series taking us back to 1980, when the old bill was bent, there were no mobile phones, social media, and personal computing was still a decade away. But we did have Adam Ant, The Specials and Madness, The Sweeney and The Professionals.

Ruby Darke and her son Kit had their own manor in London, and like all good crime lords lived out in Essex, in a big house. Business is good and everything is well in the world for the go getter. Until at one of the warehouses where he offered security, the van delivering the wages was robbed and a name of another underworld boss is named.

Daisy, Kit’s sister is getting married to Rob, Kit’s right-hand man and best friend, everything goes well until Rob is killed by a gun shot along with the wedding photographer. Kit now really knows someone is after him and it looks like it will not stop. Someone has decided they want his manor and him gone, he knows he is the hunted and will have to turn tables and find the hunter first.

The police are trying to investigate the murder and the warehouse robbery, but they are up against Ruby Darke and her son Kit, things are not going to be easy. The police know the Darkes have police on the payroll and need to keep things close to the chest, so the Darkes do not find the killer first.

Jessie Keane is one of those authors who if you enjoy her work and just want more of her, in fact I want her latest thriller before she has even finished it. Her writing just grows on you and reminds you of other female writers who just happen to know how to hit that sweet spot that keeps you hooked.

A brilliant book by a fabulous author. ( )