The first five pages: DIAMOND READER
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I never actually set out to write an historical crime thriller when I started dreaming up Diamond. I knew I loved the Peaky Blinders series on TV, I knew I loved writing crime, and I was just reading through some of the details of the Queen Mother’s wedding when I spied a bridesmaid with the name of Diamond. I had a brand new publisher who was open to ideas, and so I outlined a big epic book for her which starred Diamond Butcher (who would become Diamond Dupree), a strong, independent girl brought up on the wrong side of the tracks and forced into living a life of crime at the end of the first World War, a girl who would be raised in London, grow to womanhood and be made famous in Paris, and who would probably get into some ghastly (and entertaining) scrapes along the way.
Now, the first five pages. When I send a new book to
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