Spanning forty years of the criminal underworld, CLOSE is powerful, shocking and utterly addictive. Martina Cole is the only person who dares to tell it like it is.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And your family should be closest of all.

Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He knows exactly how far he’s prepared to go to get what he wants. And he wants it all. Now. Before long, Patrick has become a legend in his own lifetime. Violently.

The kind of women Patrick Brodie is normally attracted to have no illusions, no foolish dreams of marriage, children or, God help him, love. But Lily Diamond is different. Together they are determined that their children will have everything they didn’t, no matter what.

But the unthinkable happens, and Lily is left on her own to look after their family in a dangerous world. A world where you can trust no one. The Brodies must stay close to survive. But as everyone knows, your sins will find you out…