Diamond felt like a sweeping story, taking in what felt like enough drama to cover several lifetimes. This gritty raunchy rollicking adventure has all sorts of dangerous twists and turns that keep you turning the pages. In the early years of the last century, a desperate young girl changes her name and flees the confines of her brutal, dominating gangland family in London. It written a bit different to her other books but still the gritty, page turner that we have come to love.

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.and there uncle Vincent takes over and is a cruel and heartless man Diamond hates the Wolfe family and will take revenge. I can imagine more books featuring Diamond, taking forward the partnerships that she made in this one, but even if that doesn't happen I thought the ending was just right. Eventually, after suffering the death of both parents, her brother Aiden and miscarrying her baby, Diamond's life starts on its upward spiral and it looks like her life is changing for a more settled future.

Diamond Butcher is a beautiful girl and the daughter of Warren Butcher the head of the Wolfe gang who run the streets of Soho. When Diamond’s dad Warren is murdered, his brother Victor takes over the empty place left in both the gang and his home. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery - and a dead man. I really enjoyed this story, plunged into gangland London in the early twentieth century, this was a compelling story.For fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, as well as viewers of Peaky Blinders, this is historical crime fiction at its most compelling. 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). Diamond had no chance at a happy life from a very young age when her dad was brutally murdered and her vicious uncle moved into the family home, after escaping to her loving mothers place of birth , Paris, Diamond hopes she can start a new life but trouble just seems to follow her. Diamond is slightly different to her previous books as it begins in the early years of the last century.

What I love about them are her strong , gritty , no nonsense , direct , sometimes violent to reach the goal female characters , and she has created a crime queen in the character in Diamond. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family ‘firm’ she’d once been glad to leave behind.Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family 'firm' she'd once been glad to leave behind. The oldest and only girl in a family of London thieves, reinvented as Diamond Dupree, the latest Paris ‘it girl’ - the lover of an aristocrat, fearless and beautiful she is so compelling and a great female character.