A great writer. This author has written some super books. Believable and gripping.
I’ve read a few of these books and enjoyed. Well worth reading.

Wow. This book was absolutely fantastic. Right from the very first page I was hooked. A well written and hard to put down gangland thriller.

I always know that I am going to get a brilliant thriller from this author. She writes in the style of Martina Cole and is just as good. Roy Slack is a gangster who is dying. He has no family left and blames their death on the police. He hires a hit man from Mexico to kill police and their families on DI Laura Jefferson's team. There is plenty of action to follow! Read on!

Thankyou to NetGalley, Avon Books UK and Jaime Raven for the opportunity to read an advanced readers copy of The Rebel.
Wow. What a great book. The storyline was gripping with plenty of twists and turns to keep you enthralled until that awesome final twist.
This is the first novel I have read from this author and it certainly won't be the last. If you enjoy addictive thriller writers like Martina Cole, then you can't go past this Jaime Raven.

I just love Jaime Raven's books, and once again I was not disappointed. In this one the task team has to deal with an assassin that has two goals in mind - finishing the kill list as soon as possible, and having as much fun as she can while doing it!
Recommended!!!!

A great read with lots of twists and turns. The police are under attack from one of the biggest criminals in London. He has paid an assassin to start taking them out and has a police mole giving him all the private information on their colleagues to help him do this. Family and loved ones are also drawn into this scary situation. They know what he’s doing but how are they going to prove it.

this book very addictive story have loved jamie raven books but this the best one so far the police are clueless i love the lady policewoman and the lady assasin very sassy highly recommend this book loved it

5☆ A Thrilling Cat and Mouse Chase!

The Rebel is a fast paced cat and mouse chase crime thriller that kept me on my toes, kept me guessing, was gritty and gripping.

I really enjoy Jamie's books and this one was just as good.

Roy Slack, most wanted criminal, he is most feared and revered crime boss in the country.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency task force is coming for Roy.
They was set up to catch London's most notorious underground criminal in London and they are doing a great job catching them.

However Roy is one step ahead and has someone on the inside. So what does he want with a deadly assain from Mexican!
Rosa Lopez The Slayer, deadly and Ruthless.

Laura is part of the task force taking down the hardened criminals.
Her father was an officer so she is determined to be a good one ever since her father was murdered.
Laura is Loyal, determined, kick ass detective and will stop at nothing to catch Roy Slack and put him where he belongs.

Things are about to get real when all the detectives get a text from Slack threatening every detective and their families if they don't back off and drop the man hunt.

But what comes next is a cat and mouse chase to catch the assassin, Slack and to protect their families!

How far would you go to protect those you love???

The Rebel is Written from 3 different perspectives: Laura, Roy Slack and the assassin Rosa Lopez.
I really enjoyed this style as you literally got to delve into everyone's mind. At times it was frustrating as you wanted to warn Laura and her team of Slacks Next Move.

I really liked Roy Slack, he is ruthless, powerful, manipulative, a fantastic mob boss.

The London Criminal Crime Thrillers are some of my favourite reads. So as soon as I read the blurb for The Rebel I was so excited. I've read Jaime's books before so I knew I was in for a thrilling gritty read and she didn't disappoint!

My only gripe was the amount of characters there was sometimes it was a lil confusing. I know the story was told in 3 perspectives but there was alot of side characters... detectives, family members, gang associates. But I guess it was relevant as it was a threat to the detectives plus in order for it to be realistic you needed the side players.

If you love Crime Thrillers, that are fast paced, cat and mouse, criminal underground, brutal scenes, gripping scenes and full of suspense. Then you will really enjoy this book.

I can't wait for Jaime's next book!

This is the third book written by Jaime Raven that I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing. I loved his first two books (‘The Madam’ & ‘The Alibi’) and so I had high hopes for ‘The Rebel’. I was not to be disappointed as I absolutely flipping well loved it but more about that in a bit.
I absolutely loved the character of Detective Inspector Laura Jefferson. She is a young, ambitious, hard working, strong, feisty and courageous young woman. She lives with her partner Aidan and has done for a few years now. DI Jefferson is dedicated to her work and fortunately for her, Aidan is very understanding of her job and the unsocial hours that she needs to keep. Jefferson is determined and she is a bit like a dog with a bone in the sense that once she gets her teeth into a case, she isn’t easily shaken off and if something doesn’t sit right with her, she continues to investigate things further until she has satisfied her own curiosity. I admired DI Jefferson’s bravery too when somebody started murdering her colleagues from the organised crime task force based at Scotland Yard or their loved ones. Not only does she continue to work the case and try to find new angles, she doesn’t flee the area to save herself. To be honest, if I knew that somebody was killing off my colleagues and was likely to come after me, I would be on the first aeroplane of the country. Mind you, I am just a big wimp. Anyway, I digress so back to the review I do go. As for the villains of the underworld, well let’s just say that they scared me a lot and my skin crawl. Who else is murdered before the killer is stopped in their tracks? Will DI Jefferson manage to work out who the killer is before it is too late? Can Roy Slack be caught and his empire broken up? Well for the answers to those questions and more, you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves to find out because I am not going to tell you.
The writing style is such that you can’t fail to be drawn into the story from the beginning. The book begins in a memorable way and the story hits the ground running and maintains the pace throughout. The writing is so convincing that I began to feel rather jumpy and under threat. If I heard a noise whilst reading the book then I jumped out of my skin. I even went round checking that all the window locks were locked and doors were locked to make sure that nobody could get in. I know that ‘The Rebel’ is a work of fiction but I was so into the story and the writing was so realistic that the book seemed to come alive and I began ‘living’ the story. Reading ‘The Rebel’ became so addictive that I found that I just couldn’t put the book down. It wasn’t that the book was glued to my hand but it might as well have been because it came everywhere with me. I just had to get my next fix of one more page, one more chapter and so on and so forth. I was so into the book that I didn’t notice how quickly the page numbers and the time were flying by. I genuinely picked up this book at the right time for me because I was feeling a bit down and I needed a distraction and this book provided the required distraction and more. Reading ‘The Rebel’ was a bit like a very scary rollercoaster ride with lots of twists, turns and stomach churning moments. There were also ‘car crash moments’ where you could see something happening in front of your eyes but there wasn’t a darn thing that you could do about it. I frequently almost had to read this book through my fingers because I genuinely feared what was going to happen next but I knew that if I wanted to know how the story ended, then I had to read on. This book certainly gives the reader a taste of what the criminal underworld is like and it’s far too brutal a world for this softy, so I will just stick to reading about it.
In short, I absolutely LOVED this sometimes brutal tale of how far one woman will go to get her vengeance when her nearest and dearest are hurt. Jaime’s previous two crime books were good but in my opinion ‘The Rebel’ is the best of the bunch so far. Jaime’s books just keep getting better and better. I would definitely recommend his books to other readers and particularly to those fans of Kimberly Chambers, Mandasue Heller and Jessie Keane. I can’t wait to see what Jaime comes up with next. Here’s hoping that I don’t have too long a wait. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a well deserved 5* out of 5*.

Another masterpiece from Jamie Raven. Bodies turning up as she tries to protect her family. Can she do it. Keeps you on the edge of the seat.

This is the first book I have read by Jaime Raven and I was very impressed. A very fast paced storyline that had me gripped from start to finish. It also had an unexpected twist at the end and I was totally wrong with who i thought the culprit was. I would definitely look to read more of this author. Would recommend highly.