Dangerous Lady: A gritty thriller about the toughest woman in London's criminal underworld

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But it’s also a fascinating insight into how one event can change the whole course of your future, whether good or bad. Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama with more than twenty novels to her name, of which over a dozen have been No.

The saga spans 30 years and contains all the elements of a typical mobster family: Protection rackets, sleazy Soho nightclubs, gold bullion heists, violent criminals and bloody and brutal exterminations. As well as the fact women were expected to support their husbands no matter what they did and the attitudes to homosexuality in Michael’s relationships with men. Read Martina Cole’s iconic first novel, Dangerous Lady – the novel that crowned her the Queen of Crime – and it’s gripping sequel, Maura’s Game. I liked it, despite some minor flaws, like frequently ending a chapter with an exclamatory sentence, or an intentionally ominous line that crudely foreshadows to the reader exatly what we should expect next before it happens. No one thinks a seventeen year old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but its a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - and she's determined that nothing will stand in her way.The poorly parented Ryan kids growing up in abject poverty, more or less bring themselves up, in a crime infested poor London neighbourhood and hence live life on the dark-side. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past – and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone.

I had it in mind to muse on the fact that she is a best-selling author, that she certainly knows the world of crime and criminals and that she is without any doubt a compelling story teller. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past —and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone. p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. Despite this being predominantly a crime novel, I loved the way that the family saga was wound and weaved into the story.

This is as much about sibling loyalty and rivalry as it is about crime, and it's all very well done. As ‘predictable’ she couldn’t handle being a woman in a mans world and needed a man to look after her and save the day. Cole also provides so much social commentary on 1950s and 1960s culture, in particular choice on abortion and the consequences of arranging a marriage on the foundation of pregnancy in the characters of Roy and Janine. Her mother was a psychiatric nurse from Glasnevin, County Dublin and her father was a merchant seaman from Cork City. If a refund or reimbursement is payable to you, we will transfer the money using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.