When Verity, a young girl from a modest background, meets Ruby, a girl of similar age living in the slums with her prostitute Mother, it sets off a chain reaction of events that the two girls will share. Much like the films on which this novel was patterned, McCoy creates a world painted in complicated shades of grey, asking some tough choices of her characters, and of society as a whole, in the process. The young girl, Katy, has been in care a number of times, as her mother is both an addict and schizophrenic. She is cynical without being alienating, prickly without being inaccessible, insightful without being pretentious, self-depracating without being dreary.

Well Jason has done it again wrote a brilliant book which once I started reading it I could not put it down. The descriptive is so well written that you can visualise the characters and what's happening in the storyline. With her father in the Royal Marines, Lesley and her older brother spent three years in grim orphanages before her father remarried - a veritable dragon of an ex army nurse - and Lesley and her older brother were brought home again, to be joined by two other children who were later adopted by her father and stepmother, and a continuing stream of foster children. New team members have joined up and there is a,new Superintendent who doesn't seem too keen on his team, Tamara is concerned he may split them up. With a killer at large the public are restless, reassured only by the suggestion that the murder is an act perpetrated by figures within the criminal community against one of their own, but when a troubled teenage girl disappears fear takes hold in the small coastal town.

Immediately the two girls feel a connection, and this somewhat unusual pairing is to set the course of their lives.

Unlike Veronica Mars, to which this novel has so regularly been compared, Alice Gates is entirely unfamiliar with the investigatory lifestyle prior to Annie’s attack. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.

Born on the south coast of England, growing up in Hampshire, Jason has lived and worked abroad as well as in various parts of the country and in the Scottish Highlands. Shell and Colin travel to the Harmony Resort to work on their marriage with the help of celebrity couple Dr. I received a free copy of this book from the author via BooksFunnel and am voluntarily leaving a review. I love the way Lesley weaves the story and builds up enough of a backstory that you really care about the characters.When Amber befriends Daphne, she’ll start a chain of lies, schemes and secrets to protect her newfound popularity. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services.