Queens of London

Netgalley read.
TW: Animal abuse

We get to follow 4 women in London 1925 and their life slowly becomes intertwine, Diamond Alice the leader of the Forty Elephants gang, Lilian Wyles one of few female police officers, Dorothy a naïve shop assistant and Hira a young girl from the right side of the track that finds herself on the streets.

There were moments when I thought this was going in a “Heat” kind of way and having Diamond Alice and the Office Lilian Wyles squaring up against each other but no.

A little long, a shorter version where the author is willing to turn it up a little and put the characters in some real danger and having to make some hard choices and this would have been great. A little too slow and not much at stake, things turn out alright too quickly.

I had the audiobook and narrator Amy Scanlon does a good job and gives each of the characters their own voice.