Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. In "Maura´s Game," however, I did not feel that she did a particularly good job of fleshing out any of the characters. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Some authors can churn out 600+ page books and 300 of them are rubbish but [most of] Martina's books are actually very readable and apart from a select few there isn't much filler. Martina Cole's unique blend of emotional drama and shocking realism combine in this electrifying new best seller.

You get caught up in her family and their lives and it becomes personal, that you start routing for them, even though you know they are bad.MAURA'S GAME is an explosive novel of East End violence and corruption from one of the most original voices in fiction today. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. The ideology of not bringing business inside family was experimented deeper and clearer with beautiful vision. There were only two things I would have done differently but just the fact that a lot of the book seemed to go on too long prevents me from giving this book 5 stars as I feel it could have been better. But enemies from her past are closing in and they’re about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.

MAURA’S GAME is the unputdownable sequel to DANGEROUS LADY, the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No. She is the bestselling author of fourteen novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent three paperbacks have gone straight to No. I think every woman reading about Maura Ryan would like to think they have a little of her inside them. Again, in "Ladykiller" Cole wrote in a strong narrative voice, so strong, in fact, that what is a long novel fairly flew by. She won the British Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year with The Take, which then went on to be a hit TV series for Sky 1.Read Martina Cole’s iconic first novel, Dangerous Lady – the novel that crowned her the Queen of Crime – and its gripping sequel, Maura’s Game.

The Ryan family are being set up to take a big fall from underworld grace and their enemies are circling like sharks to come in for the kill (literally) when that happens. Written at a good pace and in a style that easily allows you to grab just a little bit when time is a stretch. It does what any Cole book does though, plenty of twists and turns, but repetitive at times, but a fairly quick read for such a big book. bestseller Martina Cole which catapulted her to fame and made her the ‘undisputed queen of crime writing’ ( Guardian).She really just wanted to keep her children safe and didn’t want Lee or by consequence their children and her mixed up in it and I one million per cent agreed with her. Moreover, it does not have an engaging detective plot when the author gradually gives some hints as to "who's done all that", encouraging reader's interest. A Liverpudlian 'face', Tommy Rifkind sleeps with Maura, but takes advantage of their relationship to try his own takeover of the Ryan businesses, legitimate and otherwise. MAURA’S GAME is an explosive novel of East End violence and corruption from one of the most original voices in fiction.