Never Go Back: an utterly gripping gangland crime thriller from the bestselling author for 2023

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For a long while, the three boys thought their mum might even be one of those peculiar vegetarian types, because they had meat to eat, but she never touched it.

I’ve bought a house, slogged over the keyboard, sold a house, slogged a bit more, bought another house, moved, slogged on . As a child I’d scribbled down stories, or told stories in needlework class, or put on puppet shows I’d scripted. Boxing or crime – those were the only ways out of penury on the dirt-poor streets of the post-war East End, so Max decided that crime it was going to have to be.She was born rich, in the back of her gran’s barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until their firm crashed into bankruptcy and became poor. There is a wheen of bad language, too, but you couldn’t have an authentic story about East End gangsters without that, so I had no objection to it. Mostly, it’s been the perfect life for a homebody introvert who likes to just plod along at her own pace.

She has a luxurious lifestyle but no one to share it with, and Max clearly thinks she is in danger too. Given the way I raced through this one, holding my breath for each denouement, it should not take too long! And finally, miraculously, I found my writing voice and Annie Bailey sauntered into my head and stopped there. For that, she had to dress up – ‘make herself look shipshape’, she said, laughing about it, trying to make light of it, while Max gritted his teeth and got into ever more dodgy stuff, more lucrative stuff, so that he could say to her, ‘You can stop all this, Mum.

They moved around among the piles of screws, hammers, paint pots and saws, noting what was worth taking and intending to set off any hidden alarms. You could imagine Jonjo running to fat in his middle years; his sheer size meant that he found it easy to intimidate smaller, weaker boys – like Eddie, who was almost girlish in his fragility. Your goods must be received by smartspot Ltd at the designated location within five [5] working days of your trade-in being placed.

Her father died when she was a teenager and she fled to London to escape grim reality, finding there a lifelong fascination with the criminal underworld and the teeming life of the city. 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 daughter, Layla, has left her mafia lover Alberto Barolli and is back in London, stumbling into the police investigation and making waves. Also, someone paid me a six-figure sum for Dirty Game plus two more Annie books – Black Widow and Scarlet Women. Sensing his wife’s preference for her eldest son, Max’s dad was often tempted to give the bolshie nipper a smack.

Her husband had at least managed three good things in his life – he’d given her delicate baby Edward, and Jonjo the rough-and-tumble middle son. I really enjoyed how she plays skillfully with the push and pull of characters intimately tied to one another with a lot of baggage to work through.

When Max discovers the truth behind a tragic death in Majorca, he realises that there may be a dangerous mystery figure at play in the fateful events that have torn his family apart. When Queenie listened to Al Martino crooning out ‘Here in My Heart’ on the pub radio, she always thought of Clive. I shivered a bit more, because I was living in a council flat and couldn’t afford to run the heating.

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