Great start to a new series! Lots of suspense and loved Jess !! My only negative comment is the author should have in the beginning shared Jess's past instead of alluding to it till you got half way into the book.. I think if the author would have started with Jess's past story first it would up been more intriguing otherwise I thought it was a very suspenseful thriller . I will definitely read the next in the series!

This is my first Kierney Scott book. I really enjoyed the main character Jess, she brings a lot of baggage with her. I loved the people that works with Jess, especially Jeanie, Tina and Lindsay, every girl needs a female friend that understands her. Jess is lucky to have three that she can turn to depending on the circumstances. I'm not so sure about Chan and Milligan, they will probably grow in me. I loved the story line.
I would recommend this book if you are into Mysteries and Thrillers and loves Detective stories.

Thank you to Bookouture via Netgalley for the copy.

Excellent first book in this new series. Very dark and dangerous with characters that have issues, makes for an interesting read. Had a hard job putting this one down, it really grabbed my attention and wouldnt let go until i had finished. A really solid 5 star read.

This was a really good read with great characters and a very interesting storyline. It really kept me guessing and I'm really looking forward to reading the next instalment in the series.

Now You See Me Kierney Scott

Introducing Special Agent Jessica Bishop, a name I think we are going to get to see a lot more of.

Five foot two, red-haired, big breasted, and intelligent. She has studied for her PhD in Psychology and is brilliant at analysing every move a person makes and every word they say.

Too good to be true? Yes, she’s flawed, very flawed.

During the book her history becomes known and gives credence to the way she behaves in her social life. She has a very blasé attitude to close personal relationships, she uses men in a way that would have most of us running for the hills.

In total contrast she is fiercely protective to her work partnerships.

When a torso is recovered from a bayou in Louisiana Jess and her Partner are sent to investigate. This is the third body to be found with the same wounds in three months. Working with her new partner Nash she starts to look for connections between the victims.

All is going well until her ex-partner, Jamison Briggs, returns from a two-year undercover operation.

Jess can handle the return but Briggs and Nash don’t get on. The conflict starts to affect the investigation and things start to take a turn for the worse when a forth body is found and Jess begins to see connections to her past. Will keeping the connections to herself, to keep her secret, harm the investigation and put people in danger.

From the muggy, oppressive, murder scenes in the bayou; to the seedy pub washroom stress-relief scenes in Washington, the story thunders to an end which made me hold my breath for way to long.

This book is utterly compelling. The story takes second place to the introduction of the characters for the first half of the book, but comes into its own in the second half.


Those of you that read my blogs know I enjoy the characters and the way they develop through series. I think that Jess and her team are going to be fantastic, if somewhat complex, people to get to know.

Pages:318
Published by: Bookouture
Publishing date: 27th November 2017

This was a slow burn read for me but when it did get going boy did it go. Interesting plot I did momentarily spot the villain but discounted him only to be surprised all over again

I love a good crime thriller and more so when there is a there is a strong female lead. I loved Jess Bishop, she is sassy yet still vulnerable. The book jumped straight into the action with a serial killer on the loose and Jess and her team searching for them. There is also another story going on with Jess and her past, they entwined very well and had me hooked right till the end.
This is definitely an author to follow if you love crime thriller and enjoy a good female lead.

A fast thrilling serial killer book!

This book has everything what I want in my book. It's fast, a good plot, credible and mystery.

I really enjoyed this book. I can't stand cop thrillers that are more about the private lives of the characters than about the investigation. This book has the perfect balance for me.

Jess could easily be my friend. No small talk, straight to business.

Really looking forward to part 2.

This is a great read. It catches your attention on page 1 and keeps you going throughout the book. Jessica Bishop and her FBI team are searching for the answer to the serial murders that have been going on, and how they are related to Jessica's past. There is something new happening on almost every page.

FBI AGent Jessica BIshop has a past. WHen that past begins to worm its way into one of her current serial murder cases, it takes every bit of her energy, willpower, and mental acumen to solve the case without anyone around her knowing just how close to it is to her.
With her old partner back from a two year undercover gig, a new partner whose animosity rolls off him like water off a duck's back, and potential love interest who won't or can't seem to take a no from her for any kind of answer, Jess is pulled in too many directions at once. When all those directions converge, she has to battle her way out of a quagmire of intrigue. insanity, and psychopathy.
This was the first book I've read by Kierney Scott, but I've already signed up to read the next installment in the Jessica Bishop series, because this is one well crafted, well written, and insightful series of crime dramas.
Brava!
I was given an arc of this book by Netgalley for an honest opinion and my honest opinion is: This is a helluva good book!

I really liked this book. There were some things that didn't make sense, but overall the book was gripping and I read it until the very end. I'm giving this three stars because I figured out who did it early on and while the ending was great for Jess, to a extent, it was very anticlimactic with Jess and Jamison.

This is about a serial killer and his MO cuts close to home with Jess. Her partner is back, but not back in the way she knows him.

Chan and Jamison hate each other, I don't know why. They've added a new member to the team.

Matt has wanted to date Jessica for the last three years, Jamison always got in the way. But dating isn't exactly what she wants to do with him..
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I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for an advance copy of Now You See Me, the first in a projected series of police procedurals to feature Special Agent Jessica Bishop.

Jess is sent to Louisiana with her partner, Alex Chan, to investigate a dismembered body. They find most of the body parts apart from the head, confirming that they are hunting a serial killer as this is the third such body found across the country. With no identification on any of the corpses it is an uphill struggle to get the case moving.

I thoroughly enjoyed Now You See Me. It has a linear timeline with, apart from the prologue, one point of view - Jess's so it is easy to get and stay involved in the narrative, my favourite kind of reading. The plot is absorbing with plenty of twists and a well hidden killer. I think I suspected every character at some point in the read so I got it right (poetic licence on that point) and yet the ending was a complete surprise. I like the way the plot unfurls one small piece at a time into an action packed dénouement. There is something in every chapter leaving the reader wanting more.

The novel has a bit of everything, serial killer, puzzled detectives, romance, edgy relationships between the characters, technology and a very troubled protagonist. Don't worry the techie bits are clever but short lived and easily understood, if telegraphed in advance.

Jess Bishop is an interesting protagonist and in a way the novel is all about her. She has major secrets in her past that aren't revealed until the second half of the novel so the reader has to live with her sketchy behaviour and control issues. She suspects that the killing is linked to this past but it's a bit of an annoying read until it's revealed. I think the author is aiming for suspense but I found it irritating. On the whole Jess is a fairly unlikeable character for most of the novel but by the end she may have reconciled with her past. I would like to read the second novel before making up my mind about her.

Now You See Me is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

Thank you to Netgalley, Bookouture and Kierney Scott for my ARC of the latest thriller to hit the shelves of the British Public.

I’ve heard a lot about this novel particularly on Twitter and I was keen to give it a try and see if it lived up to the hype. And my answer is a resounding yes.

What I liked most about this thriller is that the main character Jess Bishop is extremely flawed, the most flawed detective since Sherlock Holmes himself. Even better, she’s female. With a love of strong red wine, an attitude to kick ass and a slight sex addiction, I absolutely loved Jess Bishop. I loved her whole attitude to casual sex and her refusal to feel ashamed, not only that but her determination to defend other women and prevent them from being shamed too. This is such an important message to get across in fiction and it’s great to see it applied in a genre which has, for a long time been seen as a man’s world.

Not only do I fully support the badass female detective, the storyline was fresh and original too, a murderer and torturer who stalks women across borders, disappears in the night without a trace and seems to be leading everyone back to Jess herself. There is of course a wonderfully twisted and mysterious background history for Jess as well which I never saw coming. Although I did kind of work out the twist it didn’t spoil it as it was just a waiting game then for the characters to realise too. Working out the twist doesn’t ever spoil a good thriller, it only enhances the suspense and anticipation.

And speaking of anticipation, I can’t wait for Book 2!

I received an ARC from NetGalley to read and review. The below is my honest, unbiased opinion. Thank you, Kierney Scott, the publisher, and NetGalley, for allowing me to review.

As she saw his face for the first time, she knew he was going to kill her. She just didn’t know when. Three young women are dead. Thousands of miles between them and nothing except the marks on their bodies to link them. Detective Jess Bishop sees something that strikes fear into her heart: the similarities between this case and the one she’s spent her entire career trying to forget. Brilliant and methodical, Jess always plays by the rules. But she’s not the person anyone thinks she is. And she’ll do whatever she can to keep her secrets hidden. As more bodies are found, it seems Jess’ past is coming back to haunt her. And with her partner, Jamison, back from two years undercover, she doesn’t know if she can still trust him. When the hunt goes cold, Jess knows she has to confront her past in order to catch the killer, even if that means making herself the bait…

NOW YOU SEE ME by Kierney Scott is the first book in her new Jessica Bishop series. I hadn't heard of Scott before coming across this book, but the cover completely won me over. Usually, when that happens, I end up getting disappointed by the plot, but that didn't happen with NOW YOU SEE ME. I found it captivating, thrilling, mysterious, and an overall great read and fantastic start to a new series. I'll definitely be coming back for book two!

A thoroughly engaging and addictive serial killer thriller here from Kierney Scott, with an interesting and nicely layered main protagonist who has an intriguing and well imagined obfuscated background that keeps you on board with her even through her rather ill considered choices.

Now You See Me is a great book one for a potentially exciting series to come, whilst I'm not sure I saw anything particularly new or improved on the genre here that isn't a problem because if you love this type of story then you are going to love THIS story. I've always been a fan of FBI and murder mystery related storytelling and this is a very very good example.

One I'm adding to my must read list, for those times I want a good, distracting and (strangely) comforting read that I know I'll enjoy all the way - I look forward to finding out more about Jessica now we have been introduced to her and her motivations.

Recommended for crime lovers.

This is definitely not a book for the faint of heart. Intense and graphic, this book follows an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer and trying to forget her own dark past. This is one of those books you can’t put down - quick-paced and action-packed with twists and turns. I have high expectations for the sequel.

Book 1 of Jessica Bishop series. Excellent book. A team of FBI agents search for a killer who leaves bodies in multiple locations. Great story, the characters keep you turning the pages until the end. I read well past by bedtime to finish this book. Thank you to NetGalley, Bookoutre and the Author for allowing me to read and review this book.