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    Respect: A raw, gritty drama you won't put down

    Mandasue Heller

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    'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror

    Chantelle has everything going against her.

    She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon.

    She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat.

    A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle's prayers. But the violence is about to come home to her - with a vengeance. And the only person who's offering any help seems to be just as bad as the people she's trying to escape from . . .

    'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone' Sun on Two-Faced

    'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not

    More books by Mandasue Heller
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    Forget Me Not
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    Forget Me Not
    The Family
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    Afraid
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    The Driver
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    Broke
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    The Mandasue Heller Collection
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    Lost Angel
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    Two-Faced
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    Tainted Lives
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    Tainted Lives
    Snatched
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    Shafted
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    Praise for Respect

    • Lost Angel is a shining example of the rule that the best crime fiction isn't just about crime; it's also about family, relationships, love . . . and hate. From The Godfather to The Sopranos, these are the stories that grip us most intensely. And Heller is at the top of her game with this one--it's captivating from first page to last. - Jeffery Deaver on LOST ANGEL

    • A hectic pace . . . will please fans of Martina Cole. - Bella on LOST ANGEL

    • Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel. - Martina Cole on FORGET ME NOT

    • Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins. - Manchester Evening News on FORGET ME NOT

    • 'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone.' - Sun on TWO-FACED

    • 'One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder.' - Daily Mirror on TWO-FACED

    • 'A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well.' - Daily Express on THE CLUB

    • Gripping . . . powerful writing. - Scotland on Sunday on FORGET ME NOT

    Mandasue Heller

    Mandasue Heller

    I wrote my first book when I was taken ill and had to quit singing for a while. I based it in the Hulme Crescents, where I had spent 10 of some of the best and absolute worst years of my life. It was a squatters paradise when I moved in, and a notorious no-go zone for the police. Violent crimes were commonplace and drugs were rife. I saw a fair few friends get sucked into the hell of addiction - and lost too many of them because of it. Those were the bad times, but then the musicians and artists started moving in. A friend once described it as being like Glastonbury all year round, and it really was. I wanted to capture the spirit of the place in my writing - the good and the bad; but I quickly discovered that I couldn't write about real people. I'd start, but then I'd become conscious of what they might think of it and that would inhibit me. So I decided to take a stab at inventing characters instead, using the Crescents as the backdrop for their stories. And, guess what? It worked!

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