DIAMOND by Jessie Keane, read by Karen Cass - audiobook extract
b"The thrilling new crime novel by top 10 best-selling author Jessie Keane....\\n\\nBehind every strong woman is an epic story....\\n\\nIn 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. Now calling herself 'Diamond Dupree', she goes to Paris to become an artist's model, but the world there is different to what she had supposed it would be, and she soon falls on hard times. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery - and a dead man.\\n\\nBack home in London, she reluctantly rejoins the Soho family 'firm' she'd once been glad to leave behind. Having grown tougher during her time in Paris, she soon becomes a force to be reckoned with, a feared and respected gangland queen. But then she meets Jacob Dunne, the youngest son of a wealthy aristocratic family, and sparks fly.\\n\\nBut can she escape the long arm of the law and the hangman's noose when the crimes of her past finally catch up with her?\\n\\nFor fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, as well as viewers of Peaky Blinders, this is historical crime fiction at its most compelling."