Liza Cody – författare

This novel shows how Eva cuts a swathe through London low-life. Big, ugly and irresistible, she's a female wrestler with criminal tendencies and large pectorals. When she's not working the sleazy wrestling circuit, she's a security guard living in a breaker's yard.

A year ago, Eva Wylie was the biggest, meanest, ugliest female wrestler to disgrace the ring. Her name was on posters. People recognized her on the street. But having been barred from the ring, she's back at the bottom, reduced to guarding rich people's cars and dreaming of yesterday's triumphs.

Elly Astoria had a miraculous musical talent. As a little girl she taught herself to play guitar and keyboard so that she could feed herself and her junkie mother. One rainy night she was spotted singing and playing by the founder of an indy womens band. Later, cleaned up and better fed, she caught the eye of her future manager and his creepy sister. It should have been a rags-to-riches story. Instead Ellys career was cut short by her perverted and grisly murder.

Years after her death it looks as if Ellys life has been overlooked. If anyone deserves rediscovery and a biography, its Elly. Clearly there is a story to be told and a mystery to be solved. But how?

About Anna Lee

Electric with suspense, fast and funny...Publishers Weekly

Loud hurrahs... story wonderfully alive, truly tense, dialogue sharp and accurate!HRF Keating, The Times

About Eva Wylie

A staggering achievement... A breath-taking tour de force.Sara Paretsky

...Eva is a wondrous creation an incorrigible innocent in a story that crackles with energy. Super Cody.Kirkus Reviews

About Gimme More

Any one with the slightest interest in the world of music will ?nd this a thriller they wont want to put down.Anthony Morris

Probably the greatest rocknroll novel ever.Nick Johnstone, uncut

Nita Tehris life seems sorted. She has a good job, she lives in a pretty apartment in a quiet street and she has escaped from the family who endangered her.

Yet despite everything shes achieved she still has a problem. She doesnt look like her neighbours. And when a grizzly discovery is made outside her door all eyes turn towards her.

She has done nothing wrong. But slowly, inexorably, her life turns inside-out. How can the people she used to think of as her friends and colleagues behave so irrationally in modern, enlightened England? Little by little her faith in society and British justice is eroded.

It isnt only her belief in fair play thats threatened. One thing is certainif she survives, her life will never be the same.

About Anna Lee:Electric with suspense, fast and funny...Publishers WeeklyAbout Eva Wylie:A staggering achievement... A breath-taking tour de force.Sara Paretsky...Eva is a wondrous creation - an incorrigible innocent in a story that crackles with energy. Super Cody.Kirkus ReviewsAbout Gimme More:Any one with the slightest interest in the world of music will fi nd this a thriller they wont want to put down.Anthony MorrisProbably the greatest rocknroll novel ever.Nick Johnstone, uncut.About Ballad of a Dead Nobody:I was gripped [told] beautifully, touchingly, sometimes brutallyPeter LoveseyAdventurous in form, sparklingly written and with every page more gripping than the last, this bluesy novel may well be the already garlanded Codys best yet.Mat Coward, Morning Star

Dont judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. I didnt always look like this, she says. Being barmy doesnt mean Im stupid.

Lady Bag does have her problems her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When shes extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense.

She and her rescue greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city thats visible only to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness and unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery

About Anna LeeElectric with suspense, fast and funny Publishers WeeklyLoud hurrahs story wonderfully alive, truly tense, dialogue sharp and accurate!HRF Keating, The Times

About Eva WylieA staggering achievement A breath-taking tour de force.Sara Paretsky Eva is a wondrous creation - an incorrigible innocent in a story that crackles with energy. Super Cody.Kirkus Reviews

About Gimme MoreGive me more books like Gimme More.Laura LippmanProbably the greatest rocknroll novel ever.Nick Johnstone, uncut

About Ballad of a Dead NobodyI was gripped [told] beautifully, touchingly, sometimes brutally Peter LoveseyAdventurous in form, sparklingly written and with every page more gripping than the last, this bluesy novel may well be the already garlanded Codys best yet.Mat Coward, Morning Star

About Miss TerryCompelling warm and amusing, written with the characteristic Cody honesty a terrific read.Peter Lovesey

Seema is a gardener and a dreamer. She is almost content with her safe life, sharing a flat with her best friend. Until, on a girls' night out, a beguiling older man approaches her. He leads her into a world of wealth and sophistication she's completely unused to. Through him she arrives at a place where both dreams and nightmares come true. Has seduction crossed the line into manipulation or coercion? Worse, is the relationship sliding into a supernatural realm where a man s obsession with blood will lead to Seema s death?About Crocodiles and Good Intentions It s an amazing achievement. Lady Bag excels herself. I was shocked, appalled, mystified, uplifted, tickled pink and hugely entertained. There s no person in all of literature anything like her Above all, the human spirit (and some doggy spirit ) rises above all the privations and triumphs. Thanks for a terrific read. Peter Lovesey, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winnerMat Coward (reviewing in The Morning Star): One of current fiction s most striking and exhilarating characters returns for a second outing Amid the horrors of Lady Bag's new adventures, and inextricable from them, is some gaspingly funny comedy. Cody has command not only of comic dialogue but, which is much harder to pull off, a kind of verbal rendering of visual humour, as she choreographs her characters across the pages with perfect timing. About Lady Bag made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up for a whole novel Lady Bag is perfectly realized Sara Paretsky, MWA Grand Master, CWA Diamond Dagger winner