Safe House

Nerve-wrackingly tense and paranoia-inducing, with a sense of unease that just won't let go. I loved every minute!

Roz Watkins, author of <i>Dead Man's Daughter</i>

I was absolutely gripped by this tale of secrets, lies, and the impossibility of running away from your past. I struggled to put this book down. Fantastic!

Luca Veste, author of <i>The Bone Keeper</i>

Brave, daring and original . . . I absolutely loved it

Ali Harper, author of <i>The Disappeared</i>

Twisty and so well plotted

Amanda Reynolds, author of <i>The Hidden Wife</i>

Clever plotting, a hugely confident sense of place, and more suspects than you can shake a stick at

Caz Frear, author of <i>Stone Cold Heart</i>

An excellent, page-turning psychological suspense novel with a great plot and an engaging protagonist! Kept me guessing to the end

Jenny Quintana, author of <i>The Missing Girl</i>

Loved this - atmospheric and beautifully written but edge-of-your-seat tense too

Phoebe Locke, author of <i>The July Girls</i>

So much atmosphere, tension . . . Gripping, tense and chillingly claustrophobic

Karen Hamilton, author of <i>The Perfect Girlfriend</i>

Exhilarating and utterly absorbing, Safe House is an intense thriller written with great flair and heart by Jo Jakeman. I wolfed it down in a weekend, and I defy you not to do the same

Emily Elgar, author of <i>If You Knew Her</i>

A queasily unsettling thriller is suffused with menace.

Sunday Mirror

There's a nicely mellow quality to this well-written tale

Sunday Express

You'll be gripped by just who is out to get Charlie - and why

HEAT

Revenge is a dish served with lashings of relish in this vivid, blackly comic suspense novel, as three women fight back against an abusive partner. I cheered them on to the bloody end

Louise Candlish

A revenge thriller to make you punch the air in solidarity, Sticks and Stones is a wickedly sharp, psychologically intense debut which announces Jo Jakeman as a future queen of grip lit

Eva Dolan

It's not often you get a thriller that is just as good at keeping you on the edge of your seat as it is at making you laugh - but Sticks and Stones is both. A deliciously dark and gripping debut

Emily Koch

Reads like a darker Big Little Lies with all the female rage of Sharp Objects

Bustle.com

I loved Sticks and Stones. A gripping story, sensitively told but also really funny: no mean feat given the subject matter!

Laura Marshall

Darkly funny, yet also touching and emotive. Plus, full of suspense and twists

C J Tudor

Witty and satirical while illuminating a dilemma often faced by women when their marriages break up

Marcel Berlins, The Times

A cracking pace, plenty of twists and some well-judged dark humour

Laura Wilson, Guardian