Strong Women
On sale
1st October 2009
Price: £8.99
A gripping, gritty thriller that goes ‘well into Martina Cole territory’ by the widow of one of the East End’s most notorious gangsters (Independent)
Jo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband’s jewellery shop, mercilessly bullied by her evil mother-in-law, she is trying to get her life back together again.
But then the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East end’s most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, and Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl – before it is too late. And to get her back, she’ll have to join forces with damaged but handsome bad boy Gabe Miller, a man who has a dark past of his own…
‘Well into Martina Cole territory, Roberta Kray gets under the skin of the London underworld’ -Independent
Jo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband’s jewellery shop, mercilessly bullied by her evil mother-in-law, she is trying to get her life back together again.
But then the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East end’s most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, and Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl – before it is too late. And to get her back, she’ll have to join forces with damaged but handsome bad boy Gabe Miller, a man who has a dark past of his own…
‘Well into Martina Cole territory, Roberta Kray gets under the skin of the London underworld’ -Independent
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Reviews
Gripping
A Cole-esque, addictive read... expect a healthy dose of the kidnapping, blackmail and murder that no East End novel would be complete without
There can be few people better placed to write about East End gangsters than Reggie Kray's widow Roberta, and her unique insight into the murky world of organised crime shines through in this gritty fiction thriller... Kray's storytelling is intelligent, g
Written by the widow of Reggie Kray, one of the East End's most notorious gangsters, this has an authenticity and insight to it that many other thrillers don't