Bev Hey
posts on 11/4/2009 9:21:39 PM
just finished new book and i sussed out the killer from chapter 17 not a patch on her other books jesse keane and mandasue heller is coming up fast in my estimation
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M Night
posts on 8/31/2009 6:04:01 AM
Check out the site below! It won't let me list the site fully as you are not allowed! Just put in the www and the full stops inbetween co uk
Hope you find it!
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Jenny
posts on 8/27/2009 4:25:46 PM
Where does it say about Runaway? I love that book. It was the first I read of hers and got me hooked!
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M Night
posts on 8/25/2009 5:17:22 PM
I'm following this new site with all the news about Martina - her book 'Runaway' is going to be turned into a series! Yes! And her new book Hard Girls is listed on there with the synopsis to follow. dangerouslady co uk
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nic
posts on 8/25/2009 12:42:01 PM
I am an avid reader and have to say that i enjoy martinas books more than most other authors, with the exception of richard laymon. Cant wait for the new one, does anyone have a synopsis please!
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Jenny
posts on 8/18/2009 3:40:14 PM
Her new book is called Hard Girls. No info yet but will post as soon as I find out.
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M Night
posts on 8/10/2009 3:26:08 PM
I have recently read De Marco Empire by new author J Lou McCartney - it's a cracking good thriller and a good alternative while waiting on Martina's next novel.
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elizabeth rennick
posts on 7/13/2009 1:56:02 PM
i wonder what the title of her new book will be and lynne i have read jessie keane love her and june hampson and their books are great i love thrillers and and crime novels as i used to love romances is there any other authors like the omes i have mentioned i have also read andrew gross if anyone is interested
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David Boyle
posts on 7/13/2009 10:16:22 AM
This is beyond any question of a doubt a great read and I was unable to put it down although a couple of things don't ring exactly true.
Martina often talks about people's orbit being their sphere of influence. Gangsters usually talk about who they are "wrapped around". This is a more accurate metaphor for the closely knit insular life that gansters lead.
At a pub party in the book Freddie is described as taking cocaine which is point nine. "The best there is". The implication is that point nine is a purity. Although "point nine" is a favourable reference it is a weight.
Cocaine for the last few years anyway has been sold typically in varyingly adulterated forms for a street value of £1000 per ounce in London and gets sold on in nominal wraps of "a gram" at £40.
This affords a profit margin of £120, there being 28 grams in an ounce 28X40=1120, but most dealers divide an ounce into forty wraps of "point seven" being 0.7 grammes, still referring to a wrap as a G and .35 as a half. This affords a healthier £600 margin 40X40=£1600.
Cutting further on top is also common place but frowned upon.
A dealer selling "point nine" is making a favourable observation about the weight of the wrap, not its purity
Luckily the phase in my life where I attained this knowledge is now well passed!
David
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Tony Doyle
posts on 7/11/2009 11:51:48 AM
having just recently come across this post i decided to add in case anyone reads it,someone gave me a copy of martinas,the runaaway and i was hooked,i read all her books up as far as the know as that was as far as she got before i discovered her,however like many other readers i find that after the graft things started going south,faces and the buisness are not her usual,the earlier the book the better,two women,faceless,the runaway are my favourites.if ur looking for martina style books try jessie keane,june hampson,kimberely chambers,kevin lewis,arlene hunt,sheila quigley,maggie hudson,helen black,manadsue heller although her last few have been weak too.cmon martina someone who can write as good as you has to have a goody up her sleeve for 2009.ill always but them anyway because there still a good read even if they are getting repetitive
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