Dual timeline novel set around the world
A dark thriller set mainly in GLASGOW
9th December 2025
Gone to Earth by Jane Jesmond, a dark thriller set mainly in Glasgow (plus Cornwall and Calais).
It is the third book in the very successful Jen Shaw thriller series.
Gone to Earth is a fast moving story that centres on events in Glasgow but also moves through Cornwall and Calais. Jen believes her boyfriend, undercover policeman Nick Crawford to be dead, murdered on the Calais beaches by people smugglers as his cover was blown. Jen and Nick’s cousin, Angel, attend the funeral in Nick’s home city of Glasgow and then head to Calais to try and find out exactly what happened. They have suspicions that they are not being told everything by the French police… Jen returns to St Austell in Cornwall where her mother lives with two girls that had been rescued from being trafficked in Calais. Jen feels that the girls may have some possible knowledge of exactly what happened to Nick, and of a young woman who helped one of the girls escape to London before herself heading north to Scotland. Jen tracks down the young woman’s likely whereabouts and returns to Glasgow in an attempt to find her and talk to her. Meanwhile Jen’s father, Charlie, a famous climber she has not seen for a while and who is threatening to throw Jen’s mother – his former wife – out of her house in Cornwall, is filming in Glasgow. Jen needs to talk to him. Glasgow temporarily becomes the centre of her universe.
Her investigations, both into what happened in Calais and what is happening in Glasgow (and how they might be connected), lead her to go undercover herself and try and infiltrate the Glaswegian underworld of vicious gangs who will stop at nothing to make money. She discovers much that disturbs her. And one thing that really surprises her…
Gone to Earth is a fast moving and very exciting thriller. And the main theme, child trafficking for sexual exploitation, is sadly very much of our time.
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