Are you a novel reader? Martina Cole a crime writer from Essex in England will not fail to wrap and bound you with one of her thrilling crime novels. She is a strong female crime writer “the person who tells it like it really is”. Majority of her novels have gone straight to number one best seller in the UK. The first money she made from writing was for a TV comedy, she wrote about a multi-racial family on drugs. Her first book that got her a publishing deal was Dangerous Lady, the story of how a seventeen year old girl took on London gangland. This is one of her favourite novels of all time. Most of her novels examine London gangster underworld and she has gain sales of over ten million pounds in the UK alone. Her novels usually feature a female protagonist however behind a strong man. She uses this phrase well “behind every successful man, there is a woman”. Most of her settings take place in England and within the Irish community around London. Majority of crime writers are always male novelists, there are only few female writers and Martina Cole is one of them who stand out. Have you ever want to read about London slangs, all the swearing, all the dirty talks, and the under word business and ways of life? Martina Cole has got it all. Her novels spill it out like a bean and takes you into a dream world which sends you into an odyssey with London gang stars of the west end and many more.I was first flowed away when I read her first novel “Dangerious lady”. I got lost into the story and her way of writing, and made her my favourite writer straight away. She didn’t fail to entertain me with her story of a London west end woman as I never dropped the novel until I was done. After Goodnight Lady, I promised myself to read each and every novel she has written. The Telegraph news paper said “she always looks at the dark side of life”. She tells the filthiest jokes, added another news paper.
It was like she was born to know men so well. She reads their mind and writes about them like a god. She also made a comment saying “once I start writing, the story takes it over”. Such words come only from amazing writers. A writer, whose story can come to life once they create the character, has unlimited bound. Some of her novels such as Dangerous Lady; which is one of her very best of all time, The jump; the ravishing one, and The Take; which is the unimaginable one have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. The Take was serialised on British television on Sky1, on the 17th of June 2009. She also created an investigative documentary in 2009 called; Martina Cole Girl Gangs: Los Angeles which was filmed and focused on the role of girls in a game gang, which have been responsible for drug dealing and auto theft, to robbery and murder. She is a true writer indeed because she never failed to write a book every year, she kept it going and has now written 17 amazing readable books. Martina Cole was born in 1959 which is 51 years today. She is as single parents of two children, she has a big extended family and always referred to her upbringing as shaping her life to the woman she is today. She never studied to be a writer in college or university. She was just a single mother who didn’t have much to do and when bored, decided to take up writing. Martina Cola is a great writer indeed and I will recommend her to anyone who enjoys crime, murder novel and who wants to feel the London underworld life and hard core language at the same time in a novel.
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The Lady Killer (1993) |
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| Dangerous Lady (1992) |
BOOKS SHE HAS WRITTEN SO FAR
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| Goodnight Lady (1994) |
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The Jump (1995) |
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The Runway (1997) |
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| Two Women (1999) |
 Broken (2000)  Faceless (2001) The Know (2003) |
| The Graft (2004) |
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| Maura's Game (2002) |
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The Take (2005) |
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| Close (2006) |
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| Faces (2007) |
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| The Business (2008) |
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| Hard Girls (2009) |
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| The Family (2010) |
References
http://www.martinacole.co.uk/author.htm
http://www.martinacole.co.uk/article.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_Cole
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=sr_kk_2?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Amartina+cole+books&keywords=martina+cole+books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291117280
