Maura's Game: A gripping crime thriller of danger, determination and one unstoppable woman

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By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Her books are heavy and draining but also very realistic of life and that is always a breath of fresh air. I love Martina and am so happy I was introduced to these books about 10 years ago and now I don't have time to sit a read cause of my kids!

Vic is the proverbial invisible man, as he scuppers the Ryan family plans at every turn, but nobody can locate him when Maura Ryan wants to meet him. Enemies start coming after her and her family and it's the innocents that are being targeted, to hurt the family the most. Eerste deel staat hier tussen aanhalingstekens omdat Martina Cole in eerste instantie niet van plan was om een vervolg te schrijven. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It does what any Cole book does though, plenty of twists and turns, but repetitive at times, but a fairly quick read for such a big book.Even though they are gangsters, I expected them to be likable for some of their personal traits or deeds. This is the followup to dangerous lady, and your with Maura all the way, this is great page turner and each chapter makes you want some more. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. A Liverpudlian 'face', Tommy Rifkind sleeps with Maura, but takes advantage of their relationship to try his own takeover of the Ryan businesses, legitimate and otherwise. Someone appears to be wanting to start a crime war with everyone thinking that the Ryan's are responsible.

Her unique, powerful storytelling is acclaimed for its hard-hitting, true-to-life style - there is no one like Martina Cole. None of the characters have any endearing qualities but as it is a tale of gangsters that is only to be expected. The ideology of not bringing business inside family was experimented deeper and clearer with beautiful vision.

The characters are memorable and seem to leap off the pages of the book and almost have a real life of their own. I did like Joey’s personality for a bit because he seemed fun and away from the vicious criminal underworld but then he showed his true colours more near the end and family friend Abdul seemed nice until he also showed his true colours. Het kan aan mij liggen, omdat ik Gevaarlijke dame nog niet gelezen heb, maar ik vond Grof spel minder goed dan Vrouwen zonder gezicht. Het knalt er wel in: als je bij pagina 17 bent, heb je naar je idee al een half boek uit, en nog wel een met een flinke verrassing. I have read one other book by this author and thought it was good, although her work is extremely gory.

It could've been a whole lot shorter, though, and there are hundreds and thousands of cliches in Cole's prose and characters' dialogue. I thought about giving this book 5 stars but then I figured if a book is a 5 star read (in the opinion of the reader) then it doesn't require thinking about and so I give this book 4.They put this down in quite ruthless fashion even killing the adult children of people quite dear to them. Maura is the Queen of the Criminal underworld and helps her remaining brothers take care of business. The Maura Ryan Books: Dangerous Lady and Maura’s Game Available together for the first time, Martina Cole's genre-defining first novel Dangerous Lady and it's sequel, Maura's Game, featuring her classic heroine Maura Ryan. This book is the sequel to "Dangerous Lady" and continued the story of Maura Ryan and her family who are one of the head crime families in London.