Diamond flees to Paris and reinvents herself as Diamond Dupree doing whatever she has to do to survive however trouble seems to follow her. Briefly, born into the Butcher family who rule the streets around Soho her life is disrupted when her father is killed in a fight with the local Wolfe gang and her family’s lives are brutally changed with the arrival of her uncle. Diamond Butcher is a feisty female lead character who has to put up with abuse with her family in London and has to cope with a move to Paris where her life is far from easy. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family ‘firm’ she’d once been glad to leave behind.

If I had one one small quibble in parts, this book jumps from one character to another within the same paragraph which made the read feel disjointed in parts. But the great thing about life is, even painful events pass, and if you make bad choices, hopefully you learn from them. I absolutely enjoyed this so much, some right nasty horrible characters Uncle Victor what a vile man. But when she gets there the city is not the beautiful one that her mother has portrayed in her stories. This book had a fantastic story, lots of action and crime and will have you on the edge of your seat.There she meets again the handsome Earl, Richard Beaumont and ignites a love affair doomed by the differences in class. But can she escape the long arm of the law and the hangman's noose, when the crimes of her past finally catch up with her? This is a brutal story; intelligent, brave and full of action that will not leave anyone indifferent.

Warren's cruel brother Victor barges his way into their lives, he rapes their mother Frenchie nightly and beats the children. Warren's brother decides to take over the firm as well as the household using his bully boy and controlling ways. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery - and a dead man. Diamond a little jewel of a girl, her father Warren Butcher rule the streets of Soho the Wolfe mob run them out of London and they head to Paris her mother glamour Frenchie and her two brothers Owen and Aiden then moving back to take over the club Milano they will never be rid of Gustav Wolfe, and after their fathers death his brother Victor steps in and rules the roots.And this cracking page-turner is certainly packed with Keane's trademark cast of larger-than-life characters - each superbly fleshed out and each inhabiting a world so palpably real that we can feel the menace. Very different to her other books but just as good,a rollercoaster of a read,brilliantly written and filled with characters you'll love and hate. The baddies are well-drawn too and I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near them or in the middle of one of their fights. I can imagine more books featuring Diamond, taking forward the partnerships that she made in this one, but even if that doesn't happen I thought the ending was just right.

Jessie's stand-alone novels include Jail Bird, The Make, Dangerous, Fearless, The Knock and The Manor. Diamond Butcher and her family are driven from all they own by the Wolfe family even in France,so Diamonds father brings them back to London to rebuild their lives.Her father died when she was a teenager and she fled to London to escape grim reality, finding there a lifelong fascination with the criminal underworld and the teeming life of the city.