Product Description

Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But time has stood still for Marie, and she has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know. But some people out there do care - particularly when they know that Marie Carter is out for revenge...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #335000 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Guardian
'Intensely readable' Guardian

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 four more bestselling novels set in the criminal underworld, one of which, THE JUMP, was also made into a successful television drama.

Customer Reviews

THE BEST THRILLER READ OF THE YEAR?!
I loved this book. Martina Cole writes so well about crime because she writes so well about people. Her characters make her books come alive, and FACELESS is possibly her best novel yet, with Marie Carter (initals 'MC', like the author, a coincidence?!) an intriguing but flawed heroine.

Martina Cole knows crime, she knows women, and she knows London which makes her books far better than the phoney 'Gangster Glam' portrayed in films like Lock, Stock. Here we see the horrible effects of crime and injustice, and the courage it takes fight against it. All in all, the most realistic city crime/thriller since Dexter Dias's superb 'Power of Attorney'. There's much in common between the two books, not least that both authors know what they are writing about. On balance I would have to say that 'Faceless' just shades 'Power of Attorney' for my fave unputdownable read of the year - but only just! Can't recommend them too much.

Fantastic - Could not put it down
WOW what a book. I lost two days of my life reading this book. Excellent story line I felt for the main character and the ending won't let you down. I will now read all of Martina's books.

Another winner
Martina has done it again. Marie out of prison after 13 years looking to settle into the 'outside' but first must find her children and try to mend fences. The only problem is her daughter does not want to know, Marie finds out she is doing the same thing she did herself before prison and with the same man that started Marie on the road to destruction. I think predicable of Ms Cole's writting style, real hard East End nuts are all over the place, trying to get rid of their rivals in order to 'take over the control of patches'...