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Kiss and Tell Kindle Edition

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CALLING ALL CRIME FICTION FANS...

'KISS AND TELL' is another highly original crime fiction thriller by experienced TV drama scriptwriter TJ Cooke.

It introduces us to Jill Shadow, a criminal lawyer who has overcome a traumatic past. Forget every lawyer stereotype you've ever come across, because Jill certainly breaks the mould...

Imminent danger has seen Jill transferred to a safe house, with news that her daughter is missing, possibly abducted from school.

Jill reckons that two events are key to solving the mystery. One is surely the release of her ex-partner Jimmy, but the other could be her recent involvement in the disturbing case of Bella Kiss, an Anglo-Hungarian drug smuggler.

With one police officer murdered, another stalking her, and potential witnesses scared out of their wits, Jill soon realises she has become entangled in a darker world altogether...

...But Jill HAS to do something, to both find her daughter and save herself and her client from imminent danger... the trouble is, make the wrong call and she risks losing everything and everyone she's ever cared about...

'KISS AND TELL' is described as 'a thrilling and sophisticated take on the crime fiction genre'. Some have commented that the narrative drags you in so well that you might just try and read this book all in one go... Fay Samuels

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A crime thriller with soul, and a page-turner to boot. I am sure this is not the last we'll see of tenacious lawyer Jill Shadow. Highly recommended! Tim Kevan – Author and Times Blogger

A gripping tale, that not only hits the spot as a crime thriller but also makes us question who is really profiting from our current drug laws. As thought provoking as it is enthralling. Gina Skinner – Book Club Secretary

The author conveys the claustrophobic tension of a police safe-house brilliantly. Both his characterisation of lead Jill Shadow, and his insight into the murky world of drugs, murder and corruption are superb. Full of unexpected plot twists – a very enjoyable read. Tina Orr Munro - Journalist and Author

Kiss and Tell is a tense and thoughtful thriller. It raises some disturbing questions about the drugs trade and doesn't gloss over them with pat solutions. Margot Kinberg - Novelist, Associate Professor, Crime Fiction Blogger.

Excellent story, very well told. I can see lead character Jill Shadow being a most bankable franchise. Peter Straus – Literary Agent

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September 28, 2012
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009JE6Z6Q
Publisher ‏ : ‎ TJ Cooke; 2nd edition (September 28, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 789 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages

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TJ Cooke, otherwise known as Tim, was formerly a legal executive and advisor to the BBC's Eastenders. Since then he has dovetailed his career between advertising copywriting, freelance journalism and screenwriting.

Tim has written numerous television and radio commercials for a variety of well known companies. He is Creative Director at Sounds Sorted, www.soundssorted.co.uk

He has written many hours of broadcast drama in the UK, notching up writing credits for popular series including London's Burning, The Bill and Bad Girls. Tim also wrote for Madson starring Ian McShane. He worked on a number of overseas projects including the setting up of Eastern Europe's first daily serial drama.

His debut novel 'Kiss and Tell' introduces us to Jill Shadow, a criminal lawyer who doesn't fit the mould. 'Kiss and Tell' sets Jill up as feisty and tenacious, albeit with a warm heart. Some have compared her to Erin Brockovich. Her further adventures, battling injustice wherever she finds it, are being penned.

Tim's second novel 'Defending Elton', is also now available. It introduces us to Jim Harwood, another unorthodox lawyer, and an altogether darker protagonist. 'Defending Elton' has been decribed as a 'devilishly clever and inventive crime fiction tale'.

Tim currently lives in Devon, UK. For further details, and to follow his blog, please visit tjcooke.com or follow the author on twitter timscribe@timcooke

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Kristiana Roberts

Awesome

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2018

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It may have taken me a while to finish but this book is very captivating. I loved reading every chapter and wasn't disappointed once.

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A rich multi-layered story

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013

This is an excellent mystery about a lawyer whose life turns upside down when the father of her daughter is released from jail after twelve years of incarceration for drug trafficking. She'd been a teenager, and he'd broken her heart when she found out what he'd been doing. She never visited him in jail or told her daughter about him. She'd hoped never to see him again. But Jimmy isn't the only thing that walks into her life then.

She takes on a client, Bella, arrested for bringing cocaine into the country and discovers that the case is the tip of a hulking great iceberg. Bella is a very small and dispensable piece in a very large drug operation that involves crooked cops and politicians. Even the police with the task of breaking the ring don't know who they can trust in their own ranks.
It turns out that Jimmy knows some of the characters involved from his time in prison He wants to help, but can Jill trust him? She doesn't know this new, supposedly reformed, and certainly more educated Jimmy, and her fear that he is trying to wrestle their daughter away from her makes her view everything he does with suspicion.

At first Bella doesn't say very much and a man in a suit keeps turning up and advising her, then disappearing again. Either no one knows who he is, or they aren't saying. Gradually the pieces fall into place, and Jill begins to trust Jimmy who puts himself in danger in order to help her bring the drug lords to justice.

Everything goes pear-shaped again, however, when someone presents her with a different and more sinister version of the events, casting Jimmy as the bad guy and Jill as aiding him. Jill doesn't know what or who to believe, but in this, completely plausible, version of events, her hard-won job is in the line.

The story begins after Jill's daughter, Hannah, has disappeared and Jill is in a police safe-house for her protection. As a way of coping with the stress of not knowing her daughter's fate, she goes back over the events that led to this point in her life. The author skilfully plays on the tension between what we know now and what we must learn from the past, so we read on keen to fill in the missing pieces.

This is a rich, multilayered story that, as well as being primarily about a very real and frightening aspect of our society, looks deeply into Jill's personal issues, ones common to many in our society. In the end this novel is, perhaps, primarily about perception. We see how people's concepts, desires, fears and projections create their perception of events and their resultant behaviour. After the event, when looked back on with a fuller understanding, things can look very different indeed. Perhaps we judged someone unfairly and it may be too late to ever make it up to them.

The characters are strong, fully fleshed out and easy to identify with. The story is well-paced and engaging. The dialogue is realistic and the plot complex enough to be very satisfying when you put it all the pieces of the mystery together. The prose is immediate and flows well.
I really enjoyed this story and highly recommend it.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2016

This evaluation is posted on behalf of Julia Petrakis, manager of the now defunct IndiePENdents.
The IndiePENdents ran from December 2011 until February 2016. The organization was the brainchild of Jasha M. Levi, (1921- 2013), Author of 'The Last Exile' et al.
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Gina

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2012

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`Kiss and Tell' introduces us to Jill Shadow, a feisty, committed yet warm hearted young lawyer who has had to struggle to make it.

In what I hope is the first of many adventures Jill finds herself in a safe house, with her life threatened and her daughter missing. Her first person narrative deals with this in `real time', but she also delves into her past to help her judge the characters she has come to know, any of whom may have some involvement in her real time predicament.

These characters are many and colourful and include her ex, Jimmy, who has recently been released from a long prison sentence, her new client Bella Kiss, her client's friend `Sally', her two bosses Craig Burns and Garret McMahon, the mysterious `suited man' and a number of other shady souls who may have links with a major drugs gang.

The stakes are raised when an undercover police officer is found murdered, on the face of it by a drugs gang... but all is not quite as it seems, and as the plot thickens it's difficult to tell who the goodies and the baddies really are.

This is an ingenious tale that not only hits the spot as a crime thriller but also makes us question just who is really profiting from our current drug laws.

A really enjoyable and entertaining read...

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Mac Paco

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2013

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This was the first book that I have ever read by TJ Cooke. I think that is well written with interesting characters. Surely a great thriller, the only thing that I didn't like much was the going back and forth in the story. Anyway, I am now looking forward to read other books by this author in the future...

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Clodagh

Very good on background

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2013

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"Kiss and Tell" is very good on background. It's clear that the author knows his way both around the criminal justice system and has knowledge of the policy and official attitudes to drugs. I found this fascinating, and it added depth to the story. The plotline is different but I found it quite complex and difficult to follow in places. The main character breaks the mould in lawyers turned detective, which is refreshing. A good debut novel." Kiss and Tell

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Crime reader

A well written, sophisticated crime novel with a great central character

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2012

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I read a lot of crime novels, but what I liked most about Kiss and Tell was that it was a real departure from the rather tired approach of the detective with a drink problem. Jill Shadow is a real gem of a character. She reminded me of Kay Scarpetta, only more believable and real.
Kiss and Tell opens with Jill, a criminal lawyer, being kept in a police safe house. With her own life at risk, she discovers her daughter has also disappeared. As she agonises over the fate of her child, which she can do nothing about, Jill tries to make sense of what has happened. She begins to realise that a drugs case she has taken on, and her ex Jimmy, a reformed criminal just out of prison, could be connected.
Kiss and Tell is very well written, and a real cut above other crime novels. The author conveys the claustrophobic tension of a police safe house brilliantly. The characterisation, not just of Jill Shadow, but her partners at the law practice as well as her ex is excellent. I liked the insight into the world of criminal lawyers the author gives us. The plot also throws up some unexpected twists that I didn't see coming. All in all, Kiss and Tell is a very enjoyable read and I look forward to hearing more about Jill Shadow.

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Kiss and Tell

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2014

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A very good and original novel which I thoroughly enjoyed, I feel the ending could have been stronger which is why I have given it 4 stars and not 5. That aside this a book worth reading.

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