Everything To Lose

Ashley McCoy #2

by Jade Winters

Detective Sergeant Ashley McCoy is about to face her most challenging case yet, when her own brother is accused of the callous murder of a young woman. Though desperate to prove his innocence, Ashley is prevented from investigating the case. Instead, she is sent to solve a strikingly similar murder. As she struggles with the immense pressures of work, her own personal life starts to implode when her partner abandons her.

Just as things can’t seem to get any worse, a past case comes back to haunt her.

Sometimes it takes the pain of the past to uncover the mysteries of the present…

Genres: Lesbian, Crime

243 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2015

About the author

While Jade Winters has been putting words together since she was a child, it wasn’t until 2010 that she became a serious writer. Today, as a full-time author, she has published four novels in the lesbian fiction genre as well as several short stories. Jade was born and educated in London where she studied journalism for three years at a London University. She is the youngest of 6 children born to a Nigerian father and English mother and blames her love of spicy food on her African heritage. Jade now makes her home in Dorset in the South of England with her partner and furry companions Zorro, Buttons and Zeus.

Reviews

[Diane Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

An ok follow-up to the 1st series...both leads were too 'lovie-dovie' and dealing with their issues/personal problems...writing and storyline was frustrating and confusing....

[Steve Going · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible

I hate cliffhangers and I hate when evil wins. If I want realism I watch CNN. I haven't been so disappointed since Trump was elected.

[B, · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good murder mystery

Jade Winters’ DC Ashley McCoy is a well-written character, a smart, ethical, and dogged London detective.

She and her partner, DS Dale Taylor, are a tight professional pair who trust each other completely.

Personally, though, Ashley keeps her feelings tightly wrapped, so when her brother is arrested for murder and her lover returns to Australia to try to recover from a horrifying trauma, the detective immerses herself in her investigative skills to distract her from her heartbreak.

Ashley dives into a murder investigation she suspects might be related to her brother’s trouble and revisits a suspiciously closed case.

Winters builds in plenty of suspense, making her murder mysteries worthwhile reading. I have read Sixty Seconds (the Ashley McCoy series’ Prequel), A Walk into Darkness (Book 1), and Everything to Lose (Book 2). I look forward to Book 3, to be published November 2022.

[Gina L · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Series Cut Too Short!

I love Jade Winters writing. I had read the “Ashley McCoy” two books a long time ago. I loved them as I had before. But was very disappointed that Book 3 which was to come out in 2022, never did. So after all this time, we do not have a sense anymore that Ashley McCoy will win again, just the bad guys won. Then that makes this series a lost. That then makes me very unhappy to not have this series concluded.

[Pamela Giles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Waiting for #3

[MizLiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm waiting for the next book that was promised. I really want to continue this series.

[Hesch Aut · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the first book of the series, Ashley walked into darkness, and that was quite a ride, if you remember. In the end we might have thought „pheww, thank god!“, but we also found out it is not over yet for her.

Not only - but also - because of what happened in book one, the darkness continues for Ashley. Indeed she got lots to lose in this one. And we don’t like it because we want her happy. And how can someone be happy, when she seems to be losing two very important people? At once! Dark times for Ashley McCoy in „Everything To Lose“ also.

So again, her fight against crime is personal. This time there is more to solve than just one mystery, while at the same time people she trusts are keeping secrets from her. And just like we have felt at the end of book one, book two also leaves us wondering what is going on and what is going to happen in the next book of the series. No doubt it will solve some mysteries, and no doubt Ashley will solve them all, too.

[AC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant! Everything to Lose is a second Ashley McCoy Detective novel and every bit as exciting as the previous book, ‘A Walk Into Darkness’. Jade Winters is masterful with surprises and twists that build on the mystery and suspense. Winters’ characters are complex and her storytelling is addictive. The rapport between the detectives is something you can feel, as well as the turmoil they individually experience. I am truly hooked on this Detective series and cannot get enough! If you like a good mystery that will keep you guessing, this series is a must-read.

[Nolly Frances Sepulveda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good read

Excellent sequel. There was just the right amount of mystery a d suspense to keep it flowing, looking forward to next installment.