I took a little artistic licence (OK – a lot) with the gypsy funeral of Eva Milo. Romanies often burn the wagon and possessions of the deceased, but I’ve yet to hear of any burning the actual person too. Still, who knows. And it’s a great scene. All the time I was writing it, I could hear my mother saying, ‘You just had to go too far, didn’t you!’ Guilty, Mum. As usual.

NAMELESS

NAMELESS

JESSIE KEANE

They took her children away, and she will fight to the end to get them back . . .

In 1941, mixed-race Ruby Darke is born into a family that seems to hate her, but why?

While her two brothers dive into a life of gangland violence, Ruby has to work in their family store. As she blossoms into a beautiful young woman, she crosses paths with aristocrat Cornelius Bray, a chance meeting that will change her life forever. When she finds herself pregnant, and then has twins, she is forced to give her children away. At that point she vows never to trust another man again.

As the years pass, Ruby never forgets her babies, and as the family store turns into a retail empire, she wants her children back. But secrets were whispered and bargains made, and if Ruby wants to stay alive she needs to forget the past, or the past will come back and kill her.

Nameless is a gripping underworld thriller by bestselling author Jessie Keane.

RUTHLESS

RUTHLESS

JESSIE KEANE

She thought she’d seen the back of the Delaneys. How wrong could she be . . .

Annie Carter should have demanded to see their bodies lying on a slab in the morgue, but she really believed the Delaney twins were gone from her life for good.

Now, sinister things are happening around her and Annie is led to one terrifying conclusion: the Delaneys, her bitter enemies, didn’t die all those years ago. They’re back and they want her, and her family, dead.

This isn’t the first time someone has made an attempt on her life, yet she’s determined to make it the last. Nobody threatens Annie Carter and lives to tell the tale . . .

Ruthless is the fifth book in the compelling Annie Carter series by hit crime writer Jessie Keane.

LAWLESS

LAWLESS

JESSIE KEANE

Only the lawless will survive . . .

It is 1975 and Ruby Darke is struggling to deal with the brutal murder of her lover, Michael Ward.

As her children, Daisy and Kit, battle their own demons, her retail empire starts to crumble.

Meanwhile, after the revenge killing of Tito Danieri, Kit is the lowest he’s ever been. But soon doubt is thrown over whether Kit killed the right person, and now the Danieris are out for his blood and the blood of the entire Darke family.