Queen of Thieves by Breezy Marsh
Along with BiblioLifestyle Book Tours, I am spotlighting a wonderful historical fiction book today. Queen of Thieves was published on January 3rd so it is available now. The blurb hooked me when I picked up the book. I love stories that break social barriers and show women in a different light than history portrays them as. The eye catching cover is absolutely beautiful and makes you even more interested in the book.
About the Book:
An electrifying historical adventure about a ring of
bold and resourceful women thieves in post-World War II London.
Gangland was a man’s world. Or so they thought. The women
knew different.
London, 1946. The city struggles to rebuild itself after the
devastation of the Blitz. Food is rationed, good jobs are scarce, and even the
most honest families are forced to take a bit of “crooked” just to survive.
Alice Diamond, the Queen of Thieves, rules over her all-female
gang with a bejeweled fist. Her “hoisters” are expert shoplifters, the scourge
of London’s upscale boutiques and departments stores. Their lucrative business
stealing and fencing luxury goods always carries the threat of violence; Alice
packs a razor, and has been known to use her heavy rows of diamond rings like
brass knuckles.
Young Nell is a teenager from the slums, hiding a secret
pregnancy and facing a desperately uncertain future when Alice takes her under
her wing. Before long, Nell is experiencing all the dangers—and glamourous
trappings—that comes with this underworld existence. Alice wants Nell to be a
useful weapon in her ongoing war against crime boss Billy Sullivan’s gang of
rival thieves. But Nell has a hidden agenda of her own, and is not to be
underestimated. The more she is manipulated by both Alice and Billy, the more
her hunger for revenge grows.
As Nell embraces the rich spoils of crime and the seedy
underbelly of London, will she manage to carve out her own path to power and riches?
Might she even crown herself the Queen of Thieves?
Beezy Marsh is an international #1 and Sunday Times Top Ten
best selling author who puts family and relationships at the heart of her
writing. She is also an award-winning investigative journalist, with more than
20 years' experience of making the headlines in newspapers including The Daily
Mail, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph.
She believes that ordinary lives are often the most extraordinary and
thousands of readers agree with her, as her books spend months at the top of
the charts.
Her fascination with what makes people tick began as a cub reporter in the
North East, where she grew up after her family moved from London.
HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER, to be published by Pan Macmillan on July 25th 2019,
tells of two families struggling to face up to the secrets which bind them
through two world wars. From the bombed-out terraces of London to the grimy
docks of Newcastle, HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER is a poignant true story of the
unbreakable bonds of family and the power of love to heal the worst wounds.
It follows her #1 and international top-ten bestseller ALL MY MOTHER'S
SECRETS (Pan Macmillan 2018) set in the turbulent years between the wars in
London. The book is a powerful true story of a young girl's attempts to come to
terms with her family's tragic past.
The memoir KEEPING MY SISTER'S SECRETS, (Pan Macmillan 2017) tells the
moving story of three sisters born into poverty in 1930s London and their fight
for a survival through a decade of social upheaval. It spent six weeks in the
Sunday Times top ten and held the coveted #1 Globe and Mail chart slot in
Canada for three months.
Her first novel, MR MAKE BELIEVE (Ipso Books, 2017) charts one mother’s
attempts to find the key to lasting romance, with the help of daydreams about a
hunky actor and an internet blog about her less than perfect life. Her blog
catapults her to stardom and into his arms. Will living the dream provide the
answers she seeks or is true love just make believe?
Beezy's biography of legendary gangsters Mad Frankie Fraser and his bank
robber sons, MAD FRANK AND SONS ( Sidgwick and Jackson 2016) follows the
family's 100 years on the wrong side of the law.
Beezy is married, with two young sons, and lives in Oxfordshire with a
never-ending pile of laundry. Read her LIFE-LOVE-LAUNDRY blog and get latest
book news at www.beezy-marsh.com
Keep in touch on social media:
Twitter @beezymarsh
Instagram @beezymarsh
Facebook @Beezymarshauthor
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