and there uncle Vincent takes over and is a cruel and heartless man Diamond hates the Wolfe family and will take revenge.

Diamond has all the things you would expect to find in gangland thriller, violence, a gritty plot, with a feared and respected heroine.

Her father died when she was a teenager and she fled to London to escape grim reality, finding there a lifelong fascination with the criminal underworld and the teeming life of the city. I was hooked from the moment I started reading this book with all of its twists and turns I found it so hard to put down so much so the first night I started to read it I was only going to read a few chapters but it was 5. Very different to her other books but just as good,a rollercoaster of a read,brilliantly written and filled with characters you'll love and hate. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family 'firm' she'd once been glad to leave behind. This book had a fantastic story, lots of action and crime and will have you on the edge of your seat.

This thrilling and twisty crime novel is perfect for fans of Martina Cole' My Weekly 'A rollercoaster of crime, revenge and murder' The SunIn the early years of the last century, a desperate young girl changes her name and flees the confines of her brutal, dominating gangland family in London. Briefly, born into the Butcher family who rule the streets around Soho her life is disrupted when her father is killed in a fight with the local Wolfe gang and her family’s lives are brutally changed with the arrival of her uncle. I really enjoyed this story, plunged into gangland London in the early twentieth century, this was a compelling story. I can imagine more books featuring Diamond, taking forward the partnerships that she made in this one, but even if that doesn't happen I thought the ending was just right. Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor.

Set at the beginning of the 20th century, Diamond Butcher has grown up with the constant backdrop of the feud between her family and the Wolfe family, a bitter tit for tat battle with shocking consequences. Warren's brother decides to take over the firm as well as the household using his bully boy and controlling ways. And this cracking page-turner is certainly packed with Keane's trademark cast of larger-than-life characters - each superbly fleshed out and each inhabiting a world so palpably real that we can feel the menace.

It written a bit different to her other books but still the gritty, page turner that we have come to love. Eventually, after suffering the death of both parents, her brother Aiden and miscarrying her baby, Diamond's life starts on its upward spiral and it looks like her life is changing for a more settled future. This gritty raunchy rollicking adventure has all sorts of dangerous twists and turns that keep you turning the pages. But found it a little confusing the way it melded from one character to another, when I thought I was reading about one character it had swapped to somebody else and that was a bit irritating. Embroiled back in the family business and trying to walk a tightrope of love and loyalty, a different life beckons but can she outrun her crimes?Containing steamy sex scenes, graphic gangland violence, murder and even an execution scene this isn’t a book for the faint hearted but it’s certainly a real page turner.

I absolutely enjoyed this so much, some right nasty horrible characters Uncle Victor what a vile man. As ever, Jessie Keane's characters are brilliantly written and the end of this book lends itself to a follow up which will hopefully be on the horizon soon. But can she escape the long arm of the law and the hangman's noose, when the crimes of her past finally catch up with her?But then she meets Richard Beaumont, the youngest son of a wealthy aristocratic family, and sparks fly. What I love about them are her strong , gritty , no nonsense , direct , sometimes violent to reach the goal female characters , and she has created a crime queen in the character in Diamond. Diamond Butcher and her family are driven from all they own by the Wolfe family even in France,so Diamonds father brings them back to London to rebuild their lives. For fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, as well as viewers of Peaky Blinders, this is historical crime fiction at its most compelling. There she meets again the handsome Earl, Richard Beaumont and ignites a love affair doomed by the differences in class.