Time taken to read - 3 daysPublisher - Harper CollinsBlurb from GoodreadsAdultery, murder and dangerous love collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty debut thriller set in the London’s East End. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Lynda La Plante.For longer than she cares to remember Annie Bailey has li...
She was a madam in a brothel, then a gangster’s moll. Now Annie Carter owns the East End of London, and God help anybody that crosses her.… It’s 1970 and there’s a killer on the loose in London. When gang boss Annie Carter gets a call, suddenly it’s personal. A close friend of hers is the lates...
She got out Max’s ring and held it in her hand; it gave her some comfort. In the other one she had the pizzino from Constantine Barolli. Come Friday morning. Early. C. She closed her eyes and let it all wash over her: the rage, the grief, the guilt, the fear. Max was gone for ever, and she had to...
God, that man just don’t know the meaning of the word quit,’ complained Ruby.Jane, her PA, brought the huge bouquet of creamy-white roses into Ruby’s office over the flagship store. It was the third bouquet she’d received from Michael Ward.‘Don’t knock it,’ said Jane with a wry smile. She was a p...
One moment she stood on the terrace of their Montauk home, Constantine walking towards her with a smile saying, Hey, wonder what’s in this one?Then he was hurtling towards her, his skin cracking open like a dry river bed, and blackening to charcoal. She felt the force of the impact, felt herself ...
Ellie had washed her hands of her. She had one friend dead and the other not giving a fuck. Not that she blamed Ellie. Ex-tarts were always of the nervous variety, she knew that. They’d seen the rough end of life and when they escaped from the game they didn’t want anythin...
Paul was asleep in his car. And Bri opened the front door looking as if he’d been dragged through a hedge. He was sweaty and pale.‘What’s up with you?’ said Max, marching Molly inside while Tony followed on with Junior. ‘And I just passed Paul, he’s asleep out there. What the fuck’s going on?’‘So...
She paused. ‘Oh? Who?’ ‘Bloke called Bennett. In a bit of a state. Said he was going to call back tonight, see if you were in. You want to see him, do you?’ No. She really didn’t. Clara stared up at Sears’s face. God, he was ugly. And right now, after all that had happened, he was hanging on to t...
He was loving the job, he was living with George and Harry; everything that had been so awful and so frightening about his world had somehow resolved itself into this arrangement that worked so well for all of them. Well, he hoped that was the case. He knew he had freaked George a little with the...
Kieron stood to one side and watched her as she emptied the dead blooms, put in fresh water from one of the council cans, and carefully started to arrange the fresh flowers in the urn. Petey, her minder, watched them from the cemetery gates.She was good to do it, thought Kieron. Every week, she w...
By the mid-sixties I did a deal directly with the manufacturers. I went against the Wholesale Textile Association, cut out the middle men,’ said Ruby, feeling as if she wanted to slump her head onto Kit’s bed and sleep.They’d told her that they were decreasing the level of Kit’s tranquilizers now...
Lily and Mercy would wander around the wing, chat to people, shower, read papers. Lily became a bit of a gym bunny, worked off some of her frustration that way, but more often she’d just sit and watch some TV with Mercy. ‘You killed your old man,’ said Mercy while they slumped there, inert. ‘Yeah...