TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keane, Jessie,
TI  - Diamond
SN  - 9781529363043
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder & Stoughton
KW  - Gangs
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - In the early years of the last century, a desperate young girl changes her name and flees the confines of her brutal, dominating gangland family in London. Now calling herself 'Diamond Dupree', she goes to Paris to become an artist's model but the world there is different to what she had supposed it would be and she soon falls on hard times. When she manages to escape at the end of the First World War, she leaves behind her a mystery - and a dead man. Back home in London, she reluctantly re-joins the Soho family 'firm' she'd once been glad to leave behind. Having grown tougher during her time in Paris, she soon becomes a force to be reckoned with, a feared and respected gangland queen. But then she meets Jacob Dunne, the youngest son of a wealthy aristocratic family, and sparks fly. 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?
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