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Maura's Game: A gripping crime thriller of danger, determination and one unstoppable woman

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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. The electrifying sequel to Martina Cole's Dangerous Lady combines emotional drama and shocking realism. 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. Even though I related to it will as a sequel it had room for scope as I have said before Martina is a little tame in her description of violence.

This book deals with a lot of issues from Cole’s signature style of tackling family dynamics in the criminal underworld as well as homophobia, racism and sexism. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.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.

That said reading about Benny Ryan gluing people's eyes shut or stapling them was pretty awful, but not enough to give a book 1 star, if you can't handle a bit of swearing or violence then stick with kiddie books and leave Martina to the grown ups. 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. I've read many books by Martina Cole and despite falling in love with Cole's writing style, I soon realised that all of her books share a similar story and are all of the same genre.

Someone appears to be wanting to start a crime war with everyone thinking that the Ryan's are responsible. She did look after her niece Carla and her nephew Joey very well and always stands up against Carla and her mother when they get homophobic about Joey. Maura's Game is an explosive novel of East End violence and corruption from one of the most original voices in fiction today. Available together for the first time, discover Cole’s classic heroine, Maura Ryan, in these bestselling novels.

The ending is a bolt from the blue, gives you the clear vision of how it has to be done if ended up in such (character's) way. Enemies start coming after her and her family and it's the innocents that are being targeted, to hurt the family the most.None of the characters have any endearing qualities but as it is a tale of gangsters that is only to be expected. Maura, one of the main characters of Dangerous lady, came back for a second book when after 10 years of retirement and getting everything she thought she wanted, she couldn't leave her family behind as head of the Ryan crime gang in London. 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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