Diamond: BEHIND EVERY STRONG WOMAN IS AN EPIC STORY: historical crime fiction at its most gripping

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This gritty raunchy rollicking adventure has all sorts of dangerous twists and turns that keep you turning the pages. 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.

I have really enjoyed reading of Diamond and her life my only regret was the ending i hoped it would of been better. There she meets again the handsome Earl, Richard Beaumont and ignites a love affair doomed by the differences in class. Slightly different for Jessie a tale set way back Pre War with the Butcher family, after a series of events eldest daughter Diamond flees to Paris where her mother is from.Her mother's 'friend' in Paris, Mimi, isn't all she seems to be and exploits Diamond whenever she can. 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. Also, it’s quite impossible to not admire Diamond’s force, she is intelligent and with a thirst for revenge. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family ‘firm’ she’d once been glad to leave behind.

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. Diamond Butcher is the daughter of Warren and Frenchie Butcher, and big sister to Aiden and Owen, who was brain damaged at birth. Diamond a little jewel of a girl, her father Warren Butcher rule the streets of Soho the Wolfe mob run them out of London and they head to Paris her mother glamour Frenchie and her two brothers Owen and Aiden then moving back to take over the club Milano they will never be rid of Gustav Wolfe, and after their fathers death his brother Victor steps in and rules the roots.

This book had a fantastic story, lots of action and crime and will have you on the edge of your seat.

The supporting characters fit firmly into two categories, good or evil, and there are some truly evil, despicable characters in this book that made this book such an exciting read. Diamond Butcher is born to loving well-off parents whose father Warren owns clubs and doesn't come by money legally. We follow Diamond Butcher and her family, once high up in the echelons of London gangland crime - now forced under the heel of her Uncle Victor who runs things.

Diamond Butcher is a formidable woman who has survived so much trauma in her life both in her earlier years in England after her fathers untimely death and then in her time spent in Paris. This is not so much a gangland thriller as we have come to expect and is set in the era just after the first world war. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery – and a dead man. beautiful and feisty, she’s gonna need to be tough, as her life spirals out of control, following a fight with her brutal uncle, Diamond escapes to Paris leaving her two brothers behind. The baddies are well-drawn too and I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near them or in the middle of one of their fights.