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When Queenie´s death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart, -- each taking a different path in life. Then Sharon's world is shattered when her husband, Monty, dies in mysterious circumstances. But is it an accident or murder? As the Doyle sisters pull together to find out what really happened to Monty they enter a world of drugs, dirty money and clean guns, risking their own safety to deal out their own brand of justice. Because, when someone harms the Doyles, they soon realise that these sisters fight as one. After all, blood is thicker than water... ** ### From Publishers Weekly This banal London-based crime-family saga from British author Martin (Gangster Wives) follows the four foul-mouthed Doyle sisters through corny tribulations that would make the most hardened soap opera heroines blush. Frankie, the oldest, left to parent her sisters after their mother dies of neglected breast cancer, weeps her way through her sister Sharon's abrupt widowhood and suicide. Rebellious Mags, a policewoman suspended for shooting the wrong bloke, investigates the suspicious death of Sharon's husband, a petty crook, in between invigorating snorts of cocaine and raunchy interludes with a hunky detective inspector. Roxie, the luscious youngest, goes on the lam after bumping off an inconvenient boyfriend in Spain. Vapid prose ("That night they dined in style, booked into a grand hotel and made love for hours") goes hand in hand with an improbable plot and paper-thin characters. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ### Review "These women certainly wear the trousers when things get violent."  —*The Mirror*, on *Gangsters Wives* "A must read! Wonderful characters . .  F*** off plot."  —Martina Cole, on *Gangsters Wives*