Alive & Kicking

Jimmy Jenner #4

by John Milne

Jimmy Jenner has been working as a private detective since a terrorist bomb took both his leg and his job on London’s police force. He’s been hired to work on a straightforward divorce case, but the stakes are quickly raised. First someone tries to murder a man who resembles Jenner, then the subject of his divorce investigation is found dead in Epping Forest. Jenner soon realizes he’s the catalyst in these events. And so he begins to question his own past, particularly the accidental death of his brother Joe, 30 years earlier. Joe was a minor criminal, a peripheral member of the circle of South London gangster, Tommy Slaughter. Was Joe’s death what it seemed at the time? The answer may explain the violence now closing in on Jimmy Jenner.

253 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 1999

About the author

John Milne was born in London in 1952. His many TV screenwriting credits include: Bergerac, East Enders, Lovejoy, The Bill, Boon, Taggart, Wycliffe and Silent Witness (for which he won an Edgar). He lives in Essex.

Series:
* Jimmy Jenner

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good and pulpy with a British twist.

[Frauke · Rating 2 out of 5]

abgerbochen weil es absolut nicht meins war -.-

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my favourite of the Jenner novels. Jenner is funny and wistful as usual and the plot is good.