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But enemies from her past are closing in and they're about to learn that they should never cross Maura Ryan.
I love Martina and am so happy I was introduced to these books about 10 years ago and now I don't have time to sit a read cause of my kids! Available together for the first time, discover Cole’s classic heroine, Maura Ryan, in these bestselling novels. I'd finished all the unread books I own and with the libraries shut I didn't have access to my usual source of reading materials. The Maura Ryan Books: Dangerous Lady and Maura’s Game Available together for the first time, Martina Cole's genre-defining first novel Dangerous Lady and it's sequel, Maura's Game, featuring her classic heroine Maura Ryan. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.So, if you like to read about gangsters drinking cups of tea whilst 'getting things sorted,' then you should read Maura's Game. Even though they are gangsters, I expected them to be likable for some of their personal traits or deeds.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Maura Ryan, the former head of the gang, is retired and living with her lover, a former police detective. In "Maura´s Game," however, I did not feel that she did a particularly good job of fleshing out any of the characters. Some authors can churn out 600+ page books and 300 of them are rubbish but [most of] Martina's books are actually very readable and apart from a select few there isn't much filler.
Benny is an uncertified nutcase, who enjoys inflicting pain and death on those he perceives to be his enemies. The characters are memorable and seem to leap off the pages of the book and almost have a real life of their own.
Not a bad novel - I don´t mean to suggest that it is - but simply not as good as "Ladykiller" in terms of plot, character development, or narrative style. None of the characters have any endearing qualities but as it is a tale of gangsters that is only to be expected. But then I remember who she is and the bigger picture and I can’t like her but I can certainly see her good qualities.
Cole is brilliant at portraying the good among the bad, and vice versa, so until the very end we never quite know who to trust. I also found that this book was one of the more 'gruesome' reads of Martina's but to be honest that doesn't bother me. That said reading about Benny Ryan gluing people's eyes shut or stapling them was pretty awful, but not enough to give a book 1 star, if you can't handle a bit of swearing or violence then stick with kiddie books and leave Martina to the grown ups. It was quite difficult to find a member of the family to like in fairness and yet you still wanted to know what happened them even if you weren’t terribly worried what did. This is the very first novel by Martina Cole that I had the great pleasure of reading and I have been hooked ever since then.
p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. Het knalt er wel in: als je bij pagina 17 bent, heb je naar je idee al een half boek uit, en nog wel een met een flinke verrassing. then there's Maura's nephew, Benny, the image of his Uncle Michael, but so similar in character to his Uncle Garry. I think every woman reading about Maura Ryan would like to think they have a little of her inside them. You get caught up in her family and their lives and it becomes personal, that you start routing for them, even though you know they are bad.The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. Love the relationships of the dysfunctional family and there’s elements of wit amongst the violent and scheming ways of the Ryan family. MAURA’S GAME is the unputdownable sequel to DANGEROUS LADY, the iconic first novel by Sunday Times No.
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