The Business - Martina Cole Reviews

After discovering Martina Cole's books through a friends recommendation, I have now read the majority of her work, however, have seen in recent years that the storylines have all remained very similar. I decided to have a break from Ms Cole for a while and after watching the dramatisation of The Take, thought that I would give "The ...  Read the complete review

This is the first Martina Cole book I have ever read, and I am impressed. The book was dark and dangerous and although i knew I should not enjoy it, I really did. The themes and characters of the story had me hooked and once I started reading the book I could not put it down. The Business is about the Dooley family. It startes off with ...  Read the complete review

After first discovering Martina Cole books I went to read all of her novels and really enjoyed them up until Faces which was published christmas 2007. Therefore when The Business was published christams 2008 I was unsure whether to rush out and buy it in hardback. Against my better judgement I did go out and buy it, it should have been ...  Read the complete review

I usually look forward to reading Martina Cole's latest offering, however, I was very disappointed with "The Business". If you're familiar with her work you will know that her books focus on the seedy, violent underworld of gangland London and it's normally gripping, can't put down stuff. This book centres around the Dooley ...  Read the complete review

Review of The Business, a hardback novel by Martina Cole The Business is Martina Cole's latest offering in a long line of best selling novels set against a backdrop of London's criminal underworld. For those unfamiliar with Ms Cole's books, she writes of subjects unsavoury, seedy and at times, uncomfortable. Nothing is taboo to Ms Cole ...  Read the complete review

I found this latest novel by Martina Cole not as good as her earlier works and was quite dissappointed, it was very predictable from start to finish. I have read everyone of her novels and found them gripping with gritty real life characters and twist annd turns with every page, but this one just didn't do it for me at all. I didn't like any ...  Read the complete review

Loved Coles first books but The Business has put me off this author!! Boring, long winded and very predictable plot !!

A complete waste of trees.

Martina Cole - The Business..... **The Book** Martina Cole's latest novel entitled "The Business" is yet another book filled with the gritty, hard hitting seediness that is the London underworld. We go back in time to the late 70's and meet the Dooley family. Gerald Dooley SNR, head of the house, Mary ...  Read the complete review