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Peaky Blinders --but with women! In the thrilling final installment of Beezy Marsh''s riveting crime trilogy about a real-life London gang that began with Queen of Thieves, we go back to crime queen Alice Diamond''s bold beginnings in 1920s Soho. London, 1922. Orphan girl Alice dreams of more than toiling long hours in Pink''s jam factory. Inspired by stories about the legendary Queen of Thieves, Mary Carr, who terrorized the streets of Victorian London, Alice decides to set up her own gang: the Forty Thieves. She has an accomplice too: sly seamstress Kate Felix from Whitechapel persuades Alice they''d make the perfect team. Before long, the pair are making headlines in the glitzy world of 1920s Soho, known for their daring heists and for the row of heavy diamond rings that Alice uses like brass knuckles in her frequent brawls. What Alice soon discovers is that a life of crime makes her powerful enemies, including some who are closer to home than they''d like. Alice must sacrifice more than she ever imagined--but the toughest and most beautiful diamonds are formed under pressure. From squalid slums and the grim confines of Holloway Prison to the glittering nightclubs of London in the roaring twenties, Queen of Diamonds is a fast-paced, gritty story of love, loss, and loyalty to the gang. Women''s fiction with brass knuckles on!
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"This was a fascinating look into post-World War II London. I had never heard of hoisters and their long history before. While almost every character was doing wrong, it was hard not to like them. Everybody had a story and was pushed to do things they most likely wouldn't have if times hadn't been so tough. Hopefully, we'll hear more about Nell and Alice since their story isn't done yet. I definitely recommend this to fans of historical fiction." - San Francisco Book Review on Queen of Thieves
"Queen of Thieves is a rollicking good time...The period details of this novel are stunning...filled with sumptuous descriptions of stolen clothing, beautiful jewelry and accounts of London's seedy underbelly... Queen of Thieves also has some truly Dickensian twists, turns. And both Nell and Alice get more than they bargained for in this raucous novel." - The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) on Queen of Thieves
"A colourful tale of love, lust, making good and revenge." - The Sun (UK) on Queen of Thieves
"Gripping from the very first page...this fast-paced, amoral story should appeal to fans of Peaky Blinders." - The Lady (UK) on Queen of Thieves
