The Jump: A compelling thriller of crime and corruption

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I hope Martina's new book, due for release later this year, will be just as good as some of her earlier work, including this book. But when Georgio is sentenced to eighteen years for armed robbery Donna’s world falls apart. Innocently she believes Georgio’s claims that he has been set up and when he says that he fears for his life, she agrees to help him escape with the help of Alan Cox, an old friend of Georgio’s. Additionally, she has appeared on ITV's This Morning, The Crime Thriller Club, The Wright Stuff for Channel 5, ITV's popular daytime show Loose Women, The One Show and two episodes of Pointless Celebrities for BBC One, and a 2004 edition of The Culture Show.

Donna Brunos lives with her husband and home help in Essex. They have his and hers cars, private number plates, and gold Rolexes. They holiday in the Caribbean. Donna worships her husband.

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She remarried in the 1990s, but the marriage ended in divorce. [14] She had her second child when she was 39. [4] The dialogue is excruciatingly unrealistic. The author doesn't use contractions, so the sentences sound completely false. This is the same as Lynda La Plante. I suspect that Martina may have used Prime Suspect as her template for writing and thought that that was how to write dialogue. Again, where was the editor? Martina Cole: Woke up this morning, launched my own record label". The Independent. 22 October 2011 . Retrieved 5 November 2015.

The story takes a little while to get going but once the dynamics have been established it helps make the final third much more impactful.Most of her novels feature a female protagonist or antihero, and some take place within the Irish community in and around London. [4] Donna ends up on her own and very rich. She's looking forward to being her own person in the future.