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DI Kate Burrows could never keep away for long…

HARD GIRLS is the third book in the DI Kate Burrows series: the only time the ‘undisputed queen of crime writing’ (Guardian) and Sunday Times bestseller Martina Cole has written from the perspective of the Old Bill.

Kate Burrows might be a retired DCI, but she never could stay away from the law for long. And now Grantley appears to have a new serial killer on its hands, Kate is the only one with the expertise to catch him.

The case bears striking similarities to the Grantley Ripper. But this time the victims are prostitutes, and even hard girls deserve protection and justice.

Kate Burrows caught the Ladykiller. She’s just the woman for this job.

The DI Kate Burrows series is dangerously gripping – before you take on HARDGIRLS and DAMAGED, be sure to catch the series’ first and second instalments LADYKILLER and BROKEN

Reviews

<i>Daily Mirror</i>
'Cole is brilliant at portraying the good among the bad, and vice versa, so until the very end we never quite know who to trust. This is the very stuff that makes her so compelling'
<i>The Times</i>
'Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction'
<i>Guardian</i>
Intensely readable
<i> Sunday Express <i>
'Martina Cole explores the shady criminal underworld, a setting she is fast making her own'
<i> Mirror <i>
'Utterly compelling'
<i> Best <i>
'The story will grip you from the first pages'
<i> Express <i>
'Gritty novel from an author who knows intimately the world she writes about'