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

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There is pain, love and hardship, life laid bare, it’s a real rip roaring piece of historical crime fiction.

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. Very different to her other books but just as good,a rollercoaster of a read,brilliantly written and filled with characters you'll love and hate. Victor is worse than evil and forces Diamond to take part in some of his vile plots to extort anyone he can.There she meets again the handsome Earl, Richard Beaumont and ignites a love affair doomed by the differences in class. Diamond Butcher is a feisty female lead character who has to put up with abuse with her family in London and has to cope with a move to Paris where her life is far from easy. But found it a little confusing the way it melded from one character to another, when I thought I was reading about one character it had swapped to somebody else and that was a bit irritating.

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. Warren's brother decides to take over the firm as well as the household using his bully boy and controlling ways. But when she gets there the city is not the beautiful one that her mother has portrayed in her stories. Once we were rich (although I didn’t know it then, and it was all thanks to my Dad’s ingenuity) and then suddenly – pretty shockingly, really – we were poor (thanks to greedy people who exploited his kindness). 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.Diamond longs to escape and have her revenge on the Wolfe family who had such a feud with her family and killed her father. 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. I never have to read the blurb on books by Jessie Keane I have confidence that I am going to love it her narrative is superb and her characters are always relatable. Having grown tougher during her time in Paris, she soon becomes a force to be reckoned with, a feared and respected gangland queen.

She has two younger brothers the youngest Owen who was born with the cord around his throat has learning difficulties but is loved no less than diamond or Archie her other brother.It written a bit different to her other books but still the gritty, page turner that we have come to love.