Get Even
Authors: Martina Cole
Playing grown-ups, the future is theirs for the taking.
Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart. Sharon doesn’t question Lenny’s business dealings and it isn’t long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons.
It leaves a stain on her heart for ever.
But one night Lenny doesn’t come home. It isn’t the first time he has gone AWOL. But it is his last. He is found murdered – beaten to death in an act of brutality that shocks even the police. And Sharon never knows why.
Old wounds will surface.
Now, twenty years later, Sharon has found out the truth. Such a crime cannot go unpunished. Revenge is long overdue. The time has come to . . . GET EVEN.
Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama. Her most recent novel, THE GOOD LIFE, was a No. 1 bestseller in hardback and is one in a long line of No. 1 bestselling and phenomenally successful novels she has to her name.
Several of Martina’s novels have been adapted for the screen, most recently THE TAKE and THE RUNAWAY, which were shown on Sky One to remarkable reviews. In addition, TWO WOMEN and THE GRAFT have been adapted for the stage; both were highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which also staged DANGEROUS LADY in 2012, celebrating twenty years since Martina’s debut novel was published.
Martina Cole is a phenomenon. She continues to smash sales records with each of her books, which have sold in excess of fourteen million copies in total. In 2011 Martina surpassed the £50 million sales mark since records began and was the first British female novelist for adult audiences to achieve this.
Martina’s hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing is in a genre all its own – no one writes like Martina.
‘A blinding good read’ Ray Winstone
‘Intensely readable’
Guardian
‘An extraordinarily powerful piece of family drama’
Daily Mirror
‘Gritty novel from an author who knows intimately the world she writes about’
Express
‘Her gripping plots pack a mean emotional punch’
Mail on Sunday
‘Cole has the amazing talent of making characters appear larger than life’
Sun
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Contents
Chapter One Hundred and Eleven
Chapter One Hundred and Twelve
Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen
Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen
Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen
Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen
Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen
Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Eight
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Four
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Five
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Seven
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Eight
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Nine
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-One
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Four
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Five
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Six
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Seven
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Eight
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Nine
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-One
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Four
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Five
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Six
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Seven
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Eight
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Nine
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-One
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Two
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Three
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Four