Geezer Girls
Gangland Girls Book 1
Published on 19. March 2009
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-340-93710-5 (ISBN)
Description
Ten years ago, fifteen-year-old Jade Flynn and three other girls were forced to become the sole occupants of the fourth floor of St Nicholas Care Home for Children. Forced to take part in 'special community projects'. Forced to work for a man they nicknamed 'The Geezer'. Until a shocking event made them rebel. Steal something that didn't belong to them. They ran. They disappeared.
Now Jade is living a respectable life as Jackie Jarvis. She's getting married, and her three best friends are her bridesmaids. Until the Geezer turns up. He'll kill them, unless they do one last job for him - then they can return to their everyday lives. But can they trust him?
This time if they disappear they won't be coming back...
Now Jade is living a respectable life as Jackie Jarvis. She's getting married, and her three best friends are her bridesmaids. Until the Geezer turns up. He'll kill them, unless they do one last job for him - then they can return to their everyday lives. But can they trust him?
This time if they disappear they won't be coming back...
Reviews / Votes
'As good as it gets . . . Mitchell is English fiction's brightest new voice' * Lee Child * 'KILLER TUNE is a sharply observed, incisive and moving story of radical politics, conflicting loyalties and unfinished business.' * <i>Guardian</i> * 'Dreda Say Mitchell is an exciting new talent and her second novel, KILLER TUNE, shows her distinctive take on current urban noir.... The narrative throbs with energy and has a refreshing directness' * <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> on KILLER TUNE * 'An interesting, original novel, worth reading, even if you don't get half the references and in real life would block your ears to the noise' * <i>Literary Review</i> * 'Mitchell's plot is elaborate but tightly played, with a backbeat of racial abuse. Killer Tune lays the breezy muscial name-checking of Hornby's High Fidelity over a well-crafted murder mystery.' * <i>Financial Times<i/> on KILLER TUNE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
712 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-93710-5 (9780340937105)
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Person
Dreda Say Mitchell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Spare Room, the Gangland Girls and Flesh and Blood series, as well as the DI Rio Wray thrillers Vendetta and Death Trap. Her debut was awarded the CWA's John Creasey Dagger and she chaired the Harrogate Crime Fiction Festival in 2011. Since her sixth book she has been co-writing with Tony Mason. She has been a frequent guest on television and radio including Question Time, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, Victoria Derbyshire, The Stephen Nolan Show, Front Row, Woman's Hour and numerous others. She has also presented Radio 4's Open Book. Dreda was named one of Britain's 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. She was born and raised in the East End of London where she continues to live.