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    Audiobook12 hours

    Hit Girls

    Written by Dreda Say Mitchell

    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Two ten-year-old twin sisters are murdered outside their school. But they aren't just anyone's kids, they are gangster Stanley Lewis' daughters. When a rival gangster is arrested Stanley vows to take revenge. But his dad, feared villain Kenny Lewis, thinks there's more going on. So he contacts the one group of people who he trusts to help him find the truth...

    Jackie, Anna, Roxy and Ollie. Four women with shady pasts who take the cases people don't take to the cops. They enter a world of easy sex and even easier violence where everyone, including the Lewis family, are hiding secrets….
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471211621
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    Dreda Say Mitchell

    Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Dreda an MBE in her New Year’s Honours’ List, 2020. She scooped the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger (New Blood) Award for best first-time crime novel in 2005, the first time a Black British author has received this honour. Ryan and Dreda write across the crime and mystery genre – psychological thrillers, gritty gangland crime and fast-paced action books. Spare Room, their first psychological thriller, was a #1 UK and US Amazon Bestseller. Dreda is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts. She has appeared on television, including Celebrity Pointless, Celebrity Eggheads, Alan Carr’s Adventures with Agatha Christie, BBC Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight, The Review Show and Front Row Late on BBC2. Ryan and Dreda performed a specially commissioned monologue for the ground-breaking Sky Arts’ Art 50 on Sky TV. Dreda is one of twelve international bestselling women writers who have written a reimagined Miss Marple short story for the thrilling new anthology, Marple. Dreda has been a guest on many radio shows and presented BBC Radio 4’s flagship books programme, Open Book. She has written in a number of leading newspapers including the Guardian and was thrilled to be named one of Britain’s 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. She is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Some of their books are currently in development as TV and film adaptations. Dreda’s parents are from the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada. Her name, Dreda, is Irish and pronounced with a long vowel ee sound in the middle.

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    • 4/5
      Book was a page-turner and I read it all in one sitting. Setting is well done, principal characters well-etched. Plot develops well. Only thing is that the gang, which is investigator, to the novel was hardly useful to its client to 'solve' something. The murder mystery would have worked just fine without the weight of the gang solving it for somebody else. The literary device of connecting the gang to Lewis family and investigating 'for them' is bit too lame. It seems they needn't have done anything to investigate, their client seemed to have enough of his information. Their investigation was always by chance.

      As an aside, Jackie's character was confusing, though sort of understandably like most women would be in her position, on the subject of Schoolboy gunning for who hurt his boy. On on hand, she wants him to be 'man' to avenge her son's murder attempt on the other she does not really want him to go back to his old gang ways. Otherwise, story was well-written.
    • 3/5
      I have enjoyed Martina Cole's books now and again over the years, a strangely successful mix of female stubbornness clashing with East End crime which has resulted in some of the most graphically violent and disturbing novels I have read. So when I picked up this book and Cole herself has praised the writing of Mitchell I just had to read it, the question being could someone really write in the same genre and be as good/successful at it?For the greater part of the book, yes, it was on a par with Cole and I found it gripping to read, however, and as is the case with a lot of crime fiction, the hero or heroine seems to take on an almost invincible, Superman type aura which is probably far from the truth, but then, what would I know about the crime world?Twin sisters are literally mowed down outside their school, and a third boy is badly injured as the vehicle speeds away...the girls are the daughters of the local crime kingpin, Stan Lewis, the boy the son of Jackie and 'Schoolboy', seemingly reformed gangsters and so starts a battle of words and bodies as a mix of investigation and revenge hits the streets.The story follows the same old premise of control of the streets and in this case it was obvious that suspicion would fall onto an up-and-coming rival and the same old 'shoot first, ask questions later' mentality takes place while the Police are powerless (as usual) to do anything.Meanwhile, a misfit foursome of girls (one being the mum of the injured boy, one being an ex-African mercenary, one being an old tranny) do their own investigation into the killings which of course turns up more information than any Police force is capable of...even the all-powerful gangster Stan Lewis hasn't got these contacts and just beats the living shit out of everyone...this is where the story slowly started dying a painful death for me.The whole way through Mitchell drops hints at who the possible killer is with witnesses and informers, but in an amateurish methodology she closed off each with each lead being killed off in any gruesome method that took her fancy. The ending is a myriad of surprises, some coming completely out of left field, others blatantly obvious from the outset, however to me it seemed such a huge revelation that it was immediately unbelievable and completely wasted what had been a pretty good book until then.Unfortunately I can't rate Mitchell anywhere near being in the same field as Cole and to this extent I again question the (endless!!!) plaudits Mitchell feels obliged to print all over her book (from memory the first three pages are just self-satisfying reviews) whether anyone had actually read it before commenting...While nowhere near as bad as my favourite punching bag, Richard Laymon, I normally do the writer some justice in at least reading another book in case I had stumbled upon an off-day, however in seeing her other titles I don't think I will be searching out another Mitchell book.