Queen Dolly

Violated as a young woman, Annette turns to prostitution and heroin to get by after her parents disown her when she discovers she’s pregnant. Mind warped by drugs and her experience, she fails to realise that her child needs love, not a kick in the teeth at every turn. Obsessed with doing what her pimp, Bob, asks her, Annette will do anything he says—including allowing her own daughter to be used in ways no child should be used.

But there’s only so much a kid can take…

Carmel has grown up without love. She lives in a hell hole, Annette barely feeds her, and her world is a frightening place to be. Annette can’t wait for the day Carmel leaves home, taking with her the reminder of that long-ago night when Annette had her life turned upside down. Not caring what happens to Carmel, Annette just wants her ‘medicine’ and to be left to service her clients in peace. Carmel? She wants justice. Someone has to show the people who have treated her badly a lesson. Aided by the voice of her childhood doll, and that of the first person she kills—a young school friend—Carmel sets out to right every single wrong done to her. No one who wrecked her life should be allowed to walk free.

Not the man who runs the corner shop or the old fella who lives at the end of her street.

No one.

(This novel has been previously published using a different pen name and title.)


Genre: Mystery