Running Scared: A Gritty Thriller Set in Urban Manchester

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She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But Joel is deep in Manchester s drug scene, and his terrifying past is about to catch up with him and the na ve girl who trusts him. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. She explains that her name is Irena and was brought to this country by a man who promised her the world and then forced her into prostitution.

My glamorous mum (an actress and later one half of a female comedy duo) and my dad were friends with some of the major artistes of the day, and their star-studded parties were the stuff of legend - and a major fascination for me and my sister as we watched the beautiful people at play from the top of our stairs. The incident was having a hold on her and she thought writing about it would help her get rid of it.Robbing a small supermarket on a Manchester estate looks easy but with one of them wounded and a dead body on their hands, could things get worse? He gets caught in the crossfire between Putin's army and the Wolves, a rogue team of Ukraine partisans. She spent ten years living in the infamous Hulme Crescents and was a professional singer for many years before turning her hand to writing. Later, during that time she joined Equity and started appearing regularly in shows such as Boys From The Blackstuff, Albion Market, Coronation Street, Watching, Brookside, etc.

It soon becomes obvious that Lexi doesn't know her new lover as well as she thought, and she is forced to make a decision that will have devastating results . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Lisa Noone is the main character of the book, who is twelve years old and lives with her mum near Westy Lane where all the murders are happening. Chantelle is a magnificent lead, believable and wonderfully written; her situation described impeccably and supporting characters both colourful and engaging.Her brother Leon is on the edge in terms of friends and the sort of people he hangs around with and trouble is lurking from the early pages. As always I was chomping at the bit to get the new Mandasue Heller book and was very pleased when my prayers were answered, and a preview copy landed on my doorstep. I still sing and record original songs with my musician partner between books, but I haven't performed live for many years - apart from the occasional karaoke party with my daughter.

My children and grandchildren are my world, and my books come from the other-world that lives and breathes inside my twisted mind. Her favourite title of mine was Lost Angel and I’m afraid it still takes the title but this was still a first class read and one that I loved from start to finish.

I had read the synopsis and was looking forward to getting stuck into another gritty crime book and I wasn’t disappointed! They could the supermarket is merely The Front for something bigger, and the friends are small fish who have unwittingly plunged into a very big pond. My passion has always been soul music, so it was inevitable that I would eventually front a soul covers band. One day she was sleeping in her house along with her son in her arms, who was 10 weeks old at that time.

Chantelle does her best to look after Leon, but the situation rapidly spirals out of control when Chantelle bites off more than she can chew. Although this didn’t have the same feel as some of MH’s other books there was something a little bit refreshing about it. Among all her writings the first one was based on a real-life incident that happened to author Heller. I actually struggled to finish this as I found it fairly boring and it just wasn't holding my attention. When Frank Peter's wife Maureen dies, he feels that his once-idyllic life on the Yorkshire Moors is over.

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