Never Go Back: an utterly gripping gangland crime thriller from the bestselling author for 2023

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When the police failed to show up within half an hour, Max knew the coast was clear, and the place was theirs for the taking. She said: “It just carried on really, just rumbling away in the background while I progressed through all these horrible jobs that I had and just stuck with me. She gave up her cleaning jobs, but said she enjoyed the bar work – and there was no way she was stopping doing that, not to please him, not to please anybody. Jessie said: “My gran was Romany and she had this barrel-topped wagon in my parents' back garden and I was actually born in that wagon.

There are some great female characters set alongside a true mix of gangsters within rival gangs in London.Two years between each of them, and although Queenie was skint for a great part of the time – the war was not long over and there was still rationing – she made sure her boys wanted for little. Somehow, she had committed the crime of the century by the simple act of arriving on earth looking like her own father. But Queenie hides a secret – after a brief fling in her forties, she gave birth to Bruno, abandoning him to the care system, though unknown to her, he is brought up by her sister Nora. I loved how Keane delves right back in time to the high days of the 1950s when to rub shoulders with gangsters brought a certain cachet, and she name drops the celebrities who were closely associated with the scene - both on the right side of the law, and those most definitely well beyond it.

Both had troubled beginnings, and it is easy to empathise with their situation, even while you cringe at the lengths they’re prepared to go to, to protect themselves and their assets. Thanks to Courtney Jefferies of ed-pr for inviting me on this blogtour and to publishers Hodder for the copy of the book.He’s so bloody scrawny, he’ll get knocked to fuck,’ said his dad, laughing, relishing the idea of the pushy little sod getting a pasting. Definitely one to pick up and enjoy, I read this as part of a buddy read, but if you pick this up alone I think you'd be hard pushed not to just read it from cover to cover in one sitting. He hated his father for running out on them and making a bad situation even worse than it already was.

And then one night she weakened and – to her shame – he coaxed her out into the alley behind the pub. But if Max poked Clive on the jaw – as he longed to do – he could see that Queenie was only going to come roaring to the bastard’s defence.

But she had to have some focus, so as the years went by, all her attention was lavished upon her sons.