Seema, a passionate gardener and dreamer, enjoys a comfortable life with her best friend until a chance encounter with a captivating older man during a girls' night out changes everything. He introduces her to a realm of wealth and sophistication that challenges her perceptions and desires, pushing her to explore new possibilities beyond her safe existence.
A winner of the Silver Dagger Award. Eva cuts a swathe through London low-life. Big, ugly and irresistible, she's a female wrestler with criminal tendencies and large pectorals. When she's not working the sleazy wrestling circuit, she's a security guard living in a breaker's yard.
Street-smart, fast-talking British private eye Anna Lee becomes caught up in a case involving a mob-style execution and a drugged teenaged runaway. Reprint. NYT.
A year ago, Eva Wylie was the biggest, meanest, ugliest female wrestler to disgrace the ring. Her name was on posters. People recognized her on the street. But having been barred from the ring, she's back at the bottom, reduced to guarding rich people's cars and dreaming of yesterday's triumphs.
The 4th Classic Anna Lee MysteryA highly gifted child of chilly, creepy parents disappears. They hire Anna Lee to find her."Anna Lee is doubly unputdownable, by caustic yet tender temperament and as the hub of whirling good fictions." The Sunday Times"Liza Cody is one of our most inventive crime writers." Punch
Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn?t a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn?t much approve of female investigators and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel. The Jackson case doesn?t look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna's job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons? check. But the more questions she asks about Dee's life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital . . . or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto.
Elly Astoria had a miraculous musical talent. As a little girl she taught herself to play guitar and keyboard so that she could feed herself and her junkie mother. One rainy night she was spotted singing and playing by the founder of an indy women's band. Later, cleaned up and better fed, she caught the eye of her future manager - and his creepy sister. It should have been a rags-to-riches story. Instead Elly's career was cut short by her perverted and grisly murder. Years after her death it looks as if Elly's life has been overlooked. If anyone deserves rediscovery and a biography, it's Elly. Clearly there is a story to be told and a mystery to be solved. But how? About Anna Lee "Electric with suspense, fast and funny. . . " -Publisher's Weekly "Loud hurrahs. . . story wonderfully alive, truly tense, dialogue sharp and accurate!" -HRF Keating, The Times About Eva Wylie "A staggering achievement. . . A breath-taking tour de force." -Sara Paretsky ". . . Eva is a wondrous creation - an incorrigible innocent in a story that crackles with energy. Super Cody." -Kirkus Reviews About Gimme More "Any one with the slightest interest in the world of music will ? nd this a thriller they won't want to put down." -Anthony Morris "Probably the greatest rock'n'roll novel ever." -Nick Johnstone, uncut
Nita Tehri's life seems sorted. She has a good job, she lives in a pretty apartment in a quiet street and she has escaped from the family who endangered her. Yet despite everything she's achieved she still has a problem. She doesn't look like her neighbours. And when a grizzly discovery is made outside her door all eyes turn towards her. She has done nothing wrong. But slowly, inexorably, her life turns inside-out. How can the people she used to think of as her friends and colleagues behave so irrationally in modern, enlightened England? Little by little her faith in society and British justice is eroded
Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. 'I didn't always look like this, ' she says. Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid. Lady Bag does have her problems, her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When she's extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense. She and her rescue greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city that's visible only to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness and unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery
The story follows Lady Bag as she emerges from prison, joyfully reuniting with her friends and her cherished greyhound, Electra. This reunion highlights themes of friendship and loyalty, setting the stage for Lady Bag's new journey as she navigates life outside of confinement.