Book description
Two kids are murdered...Their gangland family want revenge. Two
ten-year-old twin sisters are murdered outside their school. But they
aren't just anyone's kids, their gangster Stanley Lewis' daughters. When
a rival gangster is arrested Stanley vows to take revenge. But his dad,
feared villain Kenny Lewis, thinks there's more going on. So he contacts
the one group of people who he trusts to help him find the
truth...Jackie, Anna, Roxy and Ollie. Four women with shady pasts who
take the cases people don't take to the cops. They enter a world of easy
sex and even easier violence where everyone, including the Lewis family,
are hiding secrets. Then Jackie's son, a friend of the dead girls,
disappears. Dreda Say Mitchell was born in London's East End in 1965.
She has worked as an education consultant and a teacher in both primary
and secondary schools. She has a degree in African history from the
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a MA in
education studies. Her first novel, RUNNING HOT, was published in 2004
by the Maia Press and won the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey
Memorial Dagger Award for best first novel. She loves to travel, with
her hot feet taking her as far a field as Cambodia and Laos to the
Lebanon and Ethiopia. She especially loves to relax in Grenada where her
family are from. She continues to live in east London with her partner,
Tony.
