Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
Martina Cole was shortlisted for the Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Bestseller Dagger 2009.
Tough women in the tough world of London’s East End gangland dominate Martina Cole’s many novels, this is her fifteenth. What she has done is to create a human side to a gritty, violent world of powerful people disregarding the law. In doing so the villains and their families, sweethearts, rivals, victims and underlings become people we either love or hate. This, not her best, features some very nasty characters.
Comparison: Mandasue Heller, June Hampson, Jane Elliot.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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Imelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She's played hard and fast and now she's
been caught.
She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a
man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it's not going to be
her.
So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes murders.
When Mary Dooley's husband is killed in the night's events, she knows she must
graft to keep the family afloat.
And graft she does, becoming a name in
her own right. But she still has to watch her daughter's life spiral into a
vicious, hate-fuelled cycle of drugs and prostitution. Caught up in the carnage
that is Imelda's existence are Mary's adored grandchildren, Jordanna and
Kenny.
Pretty little Jordanna isn't yet three and she already knows far
too much. All she can do is look after her baby brother, Kenny, and try not to
draw unwanted attention to herself. Set in the East End of London from the
tail-end of the seventies up until the present-day, THE BUSINESS is a tale of
drugs, prostitution and a young girl's fight for survival -- against all the
odds.
The Business features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Business is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Business was written by Martina Cole and published by Headline Publishing Group
The Business has 568 pages
£9.89
