Objects of Desire - Chapter 3, Part 1

There's no time to worry about Perry, the dead boy on the Dyke. Jess has to investigate another problem, a young girl with unexplained bruising on her legs. The result of an accident, or has something happened to cause these appalling marks? The mother seems unconcerned and the girl herself isn't telling.

Later that day Jess meets a new member of the police's Family Support Unit, DS Pav Randhawa. Perhaps the most beautiful woman she's ever met, apart from the knife scar running across one side of her face. Chance meetings - we never know where they may lead...

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Objects of Desire - Chapter 2

It's 1986 and Chad is coming down from her successful rock tour of the states. 18 year old superstar, where does she go from here? First stop is to find her partner in the band, Jamie - he'll have what she needs...

Back in the present, Jess Chadwick is immersed in her new case, a nine-year-old girl at the local school with strange bruising on her legs. Where did the marks come from, and why is her mother so obstructive?

On her way back from the visit, Denny texts her, asking if her latest song is ready for upload to her web site. Managing two lives is bad enough, social worker and musician, but then she hears that the dead boy on the Dyke, the one that Ed called her about last night, was one of her first clients, a little boy called Perry Stiffley. Denny would call it a system failure - Jess calls it a failure.

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Objects of Desire - Chapter 1

Things haven't been the same for Jess Chadwick since she moved from London to the Welsh Borders, and today was one of the worst; taking a new born baby from the hospital, and then finding out that one of the children she's meant to protect has been murdered.

Objects of Desire - a dark, psychological thriller by CJ Emerson - was shortlisted in 2007 for the Crimewriters' Association New Blood Dagger award.


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