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

Author: Jessie Keane

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 13 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2022

Synopsis

The thrilling new crime novel by top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane . . .

BEHIND EVERY STRONG WOMAN IS AN EPIC STORY...

In 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. Now calling herself 'Diamond Dupree', she goes to Paris to become an artist's model but the world there is different to what she had supposed it would be and she soon falls on hard times. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery - and a dead man.

Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family 'firm' she'd once been glad to leave behind. Having grown tougher during her time in Paris, she soon becomes a force to be reckoned with, a feared and respected gangland queen. But then she meets Jacob Dunne, the youngest son of a wealthy aristocratic family, and sparks fly.
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?

For fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, as well as viewers of Peaky Blinders, this is historical crime fiction at its most compelling.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

About Jessie Keane

Dubbed 'Queen of the Underworld', Jessie Keane is of Romany gypsy stock. She was born rich, in the back of her gran's barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until their firm crashed into bankruptcy and became poor. 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.Twice divorced and living in a freezing council flat, she decided to pursue her childhood aim to become a writer. She sold her wedding dress to buy a typewriter and penned her first Annie Carter book, Dirty Game.This was followed by five more Annie Carter books, all Sunday Times bestsellers, then Ruby Darke arrived in Nameless, Lawless and The Edge. Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoe

I found this book fascinating... from a business perspective more than from a jewelry lover's. De Beers is just straight up gangster in their business dealings. As much as you cringed you also had to marvel at the balls it took to tell the world they were in charge of diamonds. Period. If you are lo......more

Goodreads review by Tim

This book was a real eye-opener for me. I had no idea of just how much treachery, deceit, betrayal, and bloodshed can be laid at the feet of many in the diamond industry over the years. Author Matthew Hart regales many such tales in this very well written and well researched book. We learn about swi......more

Goodreads review by Jen

I really didn't start this book today and finish today. What happens is when I fly I need a book to read during take off/landing. So I bring my nook and one real book--because seriously, that's like 30 minutes of a flight and you don't expect me to sit there and do nothing. This book is why I'm glad......more

Goodreads review by Erica

A fairly good book. Covers some gaps in the previous book I read about diamonds, and goes over a lot of the same stuff. Zoellner's book I thought was better written. This one suffered from disorder. But overall not too bad, at the very least it's a super fast read.......more

Goodreads review by Fern

I hardly ever check who the author is when I read a book, in part because I only start caring 50% of the way into the book who the author is and because I don't want to pre-judge a book based on a short description of the author. That being said, "Diamond" is a book that makes a lot more sense once......more

Quotes

A brilliant historical crime read Bella

An epic drama starring an unforgettable heroine. Keane...has a wicked eye for the ruthless, fiercely factional criminal underworld and her books never fail to pack a powerful punch... Every story that Keane writes transports her readers into the heart of a terrifying but addictive underworld, and into the lives of people of every shade... 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... Brimming with drama, suspense, cruelty and the kind of gobsmacking violence that has made Keane one of the most powerful writers in contemporary crime fiction, this is full-on, eye-watering (of every kind!) entertainment from start to finish Lancashire Evening Post

This thrilling and twisty crime novel is perfect for fans of Martina Cole My Weekly

Mills & Boon meets Peaky Blinders in a mix of heaving bosoms and cut-throat razors The Sun

A gritty and enlightening read Yours

No one delves into the underworld like Keane! Woman's Weekly

Authentically gritty Crime Monthly

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