Faceless - Softcover

Cole, Martina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075537410X ISBN 13: 9780755374106

Publisher: Headline, 2010

Synopsis

She's done the time, now she wants revenge...

Filled with rage and revenge, FACELESS by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) andSunday TimesNo.1 bestseller Martina Cole is a gripping novel that takes a dark and honest look at what life is really like on the inside.

Marie Carter lost everything the day she went to prison for a double murder she doesn't remember committing. Her parents abandoned her, her friends disappeared. Even her children didn't want to know.

Twelve long years later, Marie is out and she's back to settle some scores...

For more compelling novels about life on the inside, be sure to read Martina Cole's TWO WOMEN, THE JUMP and THE GOOD LIFE

About this title

About the Author:

Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama with more than twenty novels to her name, of which over a dozen have been No.1 bestsellers.

Several of Martina's novels have been adapted for the screen, includingThe TakeandThe Runawaywhich were shown onSky 1to remarkable reviews. In addition,Two WomenandThe Grafthave been adapted for the stage; both were highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which also stagedDangerous Ladyin 2012, celebrating twenty years since Martina's debut novel was published.

Martina Cole is a phenomenon. She continues to smash sales records with each of her books, which have sold thirteen million copies. In 2011 Martina surpassed the £50 million sales mark since records began and was the first British female novelist for adult audiences to achieve this - and she has spent more weeks in the No. 1 slot on the original fiction bestseller list than any other adult novelist. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing is in a genre all its own - no one writes like Martina.

Review:

'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. This is the very stuff that makes her so compelling' Daily Mirror No one writes about East End women and their vagaries like Martina Cole Maxim Jakubowski, Murder One 'A powerful novel that pulls no punches... Cole has an ear for the vernacular of the East End, as well as an ability to portray the viciousness of life at the edge' the Guide Guide 'Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction' The Times Intensely readable Guardian 'Martina Cole explores the shady criminal underworld, a setting she is fast making her own' Sunday Express 'Utterly compelling' Mirror 'The story will grip you from the first pages' Best 'Gritty novel from an author who knows intimately the world she writes about' Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 075537410X
• ISBN 13: 9780755374106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576