Product Description

Joanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9998 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

About the Author
Martina Cole was born and brought up in Essex. Her first novel, DANGEROUS LADY, was an instant bestseller and became a highly successful TV drama series. Since then Martina Cole has written eight more bestselling novels set in the criminal underworld, one of which, THE JUMP, was also made into a successful television drama.

Customer Reviews

Vicious and violent as usual - lovely!
Reading this book is like watching a car-crash in slow motion. You can see the build-up to the dreadful things which are going to happen to the characters and you watch in fascination as your worst fears come to life. Martina Cole specialises in what might be described at brutal-realism. Her gang-land themes have the air of being written by someone who knows her topic inside-out, and she does not hesitate to give her readers inside-knowledge of every sort of vice and crime. Her characters are realistic and three-dimensional, and the law-abiding reader will wonder how people capable of such violent acts can at the same time exhibit loyalty and affection to each other and their family members. Martina Cole somehow enables the reader to feel sympathy for some of the more despicable of her characters, while at the same time feeling disgust at the things they do. Altogether a fast-paced read, scoring high points in the "unputdownable" category.

Martina Cole - The Know
I have read most of Martina Coles other books and this one was as good if not better than some of the others. The story line in places was sad and really made me appreciate my own childhood. It is sad to think this sort of thing goes on. I had problems putting the book down as it really gripped me. Another Fantastic read coutesy of Martina Cole.

Another Best Seller
Martina can never write fast enough for me i can't wait for her next book as soon as i have finished her latest i am waiting for the next one, So again she pulls no punches with this book its hard hitting and very very realistic to what is happening in the world today, based around the criminal underworld she writes so well about, this book once again like her others will take you into the seedy world of prostitution, murder, drugs and other things ... read it for yourself :.

It is a powerful emotional book showing the strongest kind of love there is, a mothers love for her children,and how she felt powerless when her daughter Kira went missing and how both her siblings felt when she went missing, there are some suprises along the way.

This book took me 36 hrs to read i couldn't put it down,{looks at the dishes piled by the sink} i am going to take it on holiday with me and read it again. but this time at a slower pace.
Read it and enjoy it its another fantastic Martina Cole