Martina Cole

Martina Cole is the No. 1 bestselling author of sixteen hugely successful novels. Hard Girls went straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list. The Business was the No. 1 bestselling hardback adult fiction title of 2008 and was a No. 1 Sunday Times hardback bestseller, along with Faces, Close and The Take. The Take also won the British Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year and has been adapted for Sky One - with remarkable reviews - and The Runaway is currently in production. The Know was selected by Richard & Judy as one of the Top Ten Best Reads of 2003. Maura's Game, Faceless and The Graft also shot straight to No. 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller lists, and total sales of Martina's novels are now at ten million copies. Martina Cole has a son and daughter and lives in Kent.

Martina Cole is highly acclaimed for her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing, as well as for her incredible success.

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The Faithless Martina Cole Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 November 2011. October 2011 Book of the Month. The exciting new novel from the phenomenal No. 1 bestselling author is a powerfully addictive read.... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/10/2011 Lovereading Price: £14.99 - Saving £5.00 (25%)

The Family Martina Cole Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011. Devastatingly powerful and utterly unforgettable, Martina Cole’s The Family will hook you in from the very first page, and keep you there through to the very last. As ever... Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

Hard Girls Martina Cole Like Martina Cole; read Mark Timlin. The effervescent Martina Cole has established a new genre of empowered, strong female-led crime books that has taken her to the top of the bestseller liosts, but she is also... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Hard Girls Martina Cole This year's Martina Cole offering follows DCI Annie Carr and retired Kate Burrows on the case of a serial killer who is brutally murdering prostitutes. A gritty thriller from this bestselling author. Format: Hardback - Released: 15/10/2009 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

The Business Martina Cole Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010. Martina Cole was shortlisted for the Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Bestseller Dagger 2009. Tough women in the tough world of London’s East End gangland dominate Martina Cole’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Take Martina Cole A 2012 World Book Night selection. Tough ladies dominate Martina’s gangland thrillers, ladies strong enough to stand up to violent men in a shady world …. most of the time. This is Martina’s twelfth East End, hard-hitting novel of grit, blood... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/04/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Business Martina Cole Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 November 2008. Another gem from the queen of gritty East End crime novels. Set at the end of the 70’s and moving up to the present day following the Dooley family.... Format: Hardback - Released: 16/10/2008 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

Faces Martina Cole In her fourteenth gangland thriller Martina Cole is just as gritty and gripping as in her previous novels. This story takes us from the violent streets of the seventies through to the present day, following fourteen year old Danny’s journey... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

The Take Martina Cole Tough ladies dominate Martina’s gangland thrillers, ladies strong enough to stand up to violent men in a shady world …. most of the time. This is Martina’s twelfth East End, hard-hitting novel of grit, blood and passion. She writes in... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2005 Lovereading Price: £12.74 - Saving £4.25 (25%)

Graft Martina Cole The indisputable queen of the violent, gritty, gangland thriller which, although concentrates on the woman’s view of this seedy underworld, I wholeheartedly recommend her to the male reader too. Just try her, she’s got something special.Comparison: Sheila... Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 20/06/2005 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)