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    The first five pages: DIAMOND READER

    Feb 03, 2022 6 minutes

    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.

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