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However, I would recommend to those who love gritty, realistic and a main character who just gets on with it. This is the very first novel by Martina Cole that I had the great pleasure of reading and I have been hooked ever since then.
then there's Maura's nephew, Benny, the image of his Uncle Michael, but so similar in character to his Uncle Garry. 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.There´s a story in that which I gather is detailed in a previous novel about Maura and her criminal family.
MAURA’S GAME is the unputdownable sequel to DANGEROUS LADY, the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No. On one side she had a softer, kinder side but she was strong and tough when she needed to be and Lee certainly hadn’t married a doormat. So, if you like to read about gangsters drinking cups of tea whilst 'getting things sorted,' then you should read Maura's Game. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. bestseller Martina Cole which catapulted her to fame and made her the ‘undisputed queen of crime writing’ ( Guardian).Dangerous Lady, the prequel to Maura's Game, is a story about a young girl and her family getting heavily involved in the business of London crime. This was a very violent and profance book that's not for every reader, but I found it felt very true to life. I did like Joey’s personality for a bit because he seemed fun and away from the vicious criminal underworld but then he showed his true colours more near the end and family friend Abdul seemed nice until he also showed his true colours. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.
None of the characters have any endearing qualities but as it is a tale of gangsters that is only to be expected. 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. The storytelling far outweighs the predictable text and if I had to make a negative comment I'd say she should cut out the repetition of the words 'and he knew it' or 'and they knew it' or 'they all knew it'. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
Het knalt er wel in: als je bij pagina 17 bent, heb je naar je idee al een half boek uit, en nog wel een met een flinke verrassing. 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. Written at a good pace and in a style that easily allows you to grab just a little bit when time is a stretch. 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. It could've been a whole lot shorter, though, and there are hundreds and thousands of cliches in Cole's prose and characters' dialogue.
It was quite difficult to find a member of the family to like in fairness and yet you still wanted to know what happened them even if you weren’t terribly worried what did. Love the relationships of the dysfunctional family and there’s elements of wit amongst the violent and scheming ways of the Ryan family. I'd finished all the unread books I own and with the libraries shut I didn't have access to my usual source of reading materials. They put this down in quite ruthless fashion even killing the adult children of people quite dear to them. Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time.
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