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?

 About the Author:

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

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Facebook @Beezymarshauthor

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