Martina colebiography

1992 saw the first success of many for local author Martina Cole, when she received a record breaking advance of £150,000 for her first novel “Dangerous lady”. Martina is Essex through and through  –   born  and brought up in the East End, she had a house in the Benfleet Road, before moving to Kent to be near her son’s family.

18 years later with 16 crime novels under her belt, she has confounded one critic who called her a one book wonder. However it wasn’t all plain sailing…by the age of 19 Martina was a single mother living in a carpet-less council flat in Tilbury with her son Christopher. A situation that was deemed more shocking then than now and with her friends pouring scorn on her writing ambitions, life wasn’t exactly rosy.

Maybe the gritty realism  of her books would not have come about without such an unpromising background. It is a tribute to her perseverance and talent that she triumphed in such a spectacular fashion.

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Andrew Composer, Diamond Blade winner place in 2009, interviews the conqueror of rendering Diamond Stiletto 2021, Martina Cole.

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  Martina Cole

  The Ladykiller (DI Kate Burrows, #1)
  

  4.38 avg rating — 7,641 ratings — published 1993 — 47 editions

  Damaged
  

  4.22 avg rating — 7,677 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions

  Two Women
  

  4.35 avg rating — 6,907 ratings — published 1999 — 46 editions

  Dangerous Lady (Maura Ryan, #1)
  

  4.36 avg rating — 6,517 ratings — published 1992 — 36 editions

  No Mercy
  

  4.08 avg rating — 6,320 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions

  The Know
  

  4.32 avg rating — 5,677 ratings — published 2003 — 36 editions

  The Runaway
  

  4.36 avg rating — 5,575 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions

  Loyalty
  

  4.53 avg rating — 5,200 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions

  The Take
  

  4.20 avg rating — 5,250 ratings — published 2005 — 44 editions

  Get Even: A dark thriller of murder, mystery and revenge
  

  4.20 avg rating — 5,073 ratings — published 2015
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