Martina Cole
1) Get even
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Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart. Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings, and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons. Then, one night, Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL - but it is the last. He is found murdered - beaten to death in an...
2) Damaged
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DI Kate Burrows Trilogy volume 4
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2017
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When the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up, former DCI Kate Burrows is dragged out of retirement. A new Grantley serial killer is in town and DCI Annie Carr turns to Kate for help. She welcomes the distraction from her home life with former gangster Patrick Kelly, whose long lost son has turned up out of the blue, bringing trouble with him. It soon becomes clear the killer is on their doorstep and as the body count grows, Kate and Annie...
3) Loyalty
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If you want to survive in this world there's one thing you need to value above all else: loyalty.
4) No mercy
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2019.
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Diana Davis has been head of the family business since the death of her husband, an infamous bank robber. She's a woman in a man's world, but no one messes with her. Her only son, Angus, is a natural born villain, but he needs to earn Diana's trust before she'll allow him into the business. Once he's proved he has the brains to run their clubs in Marbella, he is given what he's always wanted. It's the beginning of a reign of terror that knows no bounds....
5) Betrayal
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Aiden O'Hara has been head of the family since he was kid, and he's going to keep it that way. Jade Dixon is the one who watches his back. Mother of his son. The one who makes him invincible. But Jade's been in the game a lot longer than Aiden. She knows no one's indestructible. And when you're at the top, that's when you've got to watch the hardest. Especially the ones closest to you!
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Cain Moran wants Jenny Riley more than he has ever wanted anything before in his life. But he is not a free man...and Jenny is not just any girl. She cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation; she just wants to be with him. But Cain is about to find out that when his wife Caroline said 'TIL DEATH DO US PART, she meant it. When Cain is sentenced to life in prison, it seems that Caroline might have got her wish. All Cain and Jenny know is that if...
8) Broken
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2000
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Who would abandon a child in a stretch of woodland? Or at the top of a derelict building? DI Kate Burrows is sure there's a connection between similar incidents and when one chid dies, she knows she's in a race against time to stop a ruthless killer.
10) The graft
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2010
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This is the story of Nick Leary - devoted father, loyal friend and shrewd businessman - and what happens when a masked intruder breaks into his home.
11) Faceless
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2010
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11 years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. She's paid the price, and now she's being released from prison. Her family have disowned her. Some people, however, do care about her - they know that Marie Carter is out for revenge.
12) The know
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2010
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Being 'in the know' can be deadly. Joanie Brewer's three children mean the world to her, so when her youngest daughter is murdered, her darkest fears are realized. Joanie thinks she knows who killed her little girl, but her deadly obsession to make him pay threatens to destroy them all.
13) Revenge
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2013
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'Revenge' is a shocking, hard-hitting and haunting novel from best-selling author, Martina Cole.
14) Faces
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2008
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Just before Danny Cadogan's 14th birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, something changes in Danny and, overnight, he turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world.
15) Maura's game
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2010
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Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off an audacious bullion robbery. Since then she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.
16) Two women
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2022
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Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her marriage, Sue murdered her husband in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is that she did it for her children. In prison with Matilda, their fates become linked.
17) The jump
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2010
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Donna's husband Georgio has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for armed robbery. But he doesn't intend to stay in prison, and he wants Donna to help him get out.
18) The business
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2009
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Imelda Dooley is really scared. She's played hard and fast and now she's been caught. She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this, and it's not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie - a lie that literally causes murders.
19) Guilty
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2024
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Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going. When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pimp Artie Rogers has something to do with it. Steph and Artie go way back, but his reign of terror throughout the Medway...
20) The family
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2011
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To Phillip Murphy, family is everything. Christine has always understood this about her husband, but there is another side to Phillip, a side he never wanted his wife to see. Though, even if she did, could she do anything but stand by him? Once you're in the family, you're in it for life.