Martina Cole, A Crime Writer From Britain At The Pinnacle Of Her Career
Martina Cole came into the world in 1959 in Essex, Britain and is a very popular British crime writer. She was raised in the district of Aveley, and her novels focus on the mysterious and dark, often vicious world of the London criminal fraternity. The television dramas based on her books Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have received great viewer ratings and securely installed her at the summit of the women's crime author's niche. Her debut novel, The Jump, was an instant winner, and her stories have sold over 10 million copies in Britain and are becoming better known and admired abroad. Her 10th volume, The Know, was in the Sunday Times Best Seller list for seven weeks, which is witness to her tremendous popularity with avid crime book readers.
Largely, her novels feature a heroine (or anti-heroine!) as the main character, and several are centered around the Irish groups in the London area. TV has proven to be an important medium for Cole. In 2008 she devised a dramatized documentary program for ITV called ' Martina Cole's Lady Killers ', a series which broke audience figures and was passed from ITV3 to ITV1 in 2009.
Book Synopsis - Dangerous Lady
Sarah Ryan is representative of many of the women in the region where she resides. Her life is not a bed of roses, with a squalid home and husband who loves alcohol just starters. Hubby's ideal place to visit is 'The Bramley Arms' the local watering hole. Add a few cockroaches and snotty-nosed kids who are under-nourished, and haven't eaten much at all for two whole days, and you have a disastrous cocktail. On top of this, another infant is almost here and she's basically at the end of her tether. A baby girl is delivered and grows into a woman with a secret ...
Book Synopsis - The Family
The majority of Martina Cole books are set in the east end of London, but this book finds us in Southend. It isn't that that the author describes the southern town, or any other place for that matter at all effectively, but she mostly insinuates the environment, which in general helps to set the scene. Cole's impressive descriptive powers come into their own when she describes the ghastly details of a homicide, and she has lots of of scope to employ the talent in this book! A few of the people in the book are a bit two dimensional, but everything is in place for a reason, which is to drive the story towards it's conclusion, and entertain (and surprise!) the reader.
About the Author
Peter Bruce is a freelance journalist operating out of Toulouse in France. Subjects include Martina Cole books, Dangerous Lady.
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