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

I absolutely enjoyed this so much, some right nasty horrible characters Uncle Victor what a vile man. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family ‘firm’ she’d once been glad to leave behind. For fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, as well as viewers of Peaky Blinders, this is historical crime fiction at its most compelling. 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.Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor. 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. 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.

This is a brutal story; intelligent, brave and full of action that will not leave anyone indifferent. When Diamond’s dad Warren is murdered, his brother Victor takes over the empty place left in both the gang and his home. Diamond has all the things you would expect to find in gangland thriller, violence, a gritty plot, with a feared and respected heroine. 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. 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.Her mother's 'friend' in Paris, Mimi, isn't all she seems to be and exploits Diamond whenever she can. 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. What a story this is to read, so fast pace and so full of history as we read Diamonds dynamic journey, it keeps you on the edge of your seat chapter after chapter, I loved it all.

Thanks to Courtney at EdPr for the gorgeous gifted proof and finished copy 😍 in exchange for an Honest review. 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? Diamond Butcher is the daughter of Warren and Frenchie Butcher, and big sister to Aiden and Owen, who was brain damaged at birth. 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. Diamond longs to escape and have her revenge on the Wolfe family who had such a feud with her family and killed her father.Warren's brother decides to take over the firm as well as the household using his bully boy and controlling ways. 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? 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.