Manchester's Westy Lane is no longer a safe haven for the working girl. A killer has made it his local hunting ground and leaving the police a very special gift - a tiny Forget-Me-Not flower placed delicately in victims entrails. Lisa Noone is twelve years old and wise beyond her years. She lives in squalor, close to the ever-approaching poverty line. Pat Noone is her mother, a fearsome woman who just happens to be a member of the oldest profession in the book. Together their lives are far from perfect, but they will always have each other. Or will they? One night after a youth club disco, Benny arrives in Lisa's life, saving her from being attacked by two so-called schoolfriends. Benny is tall, dark and in Lisa's eyes the most gorgeous man she's ever seen. Now Lisa has a purpose in life. But Benny is not all he seems. And whilst Lisa wallows in true love she is totally unawares of his real intentions. Benny wants more from Lisa than she will ever know.
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Mandasue has played a real blinder with this great novel -- Martina Cole on Forget Me Not 20021010 'Exhilarating' -- Scotsman 20021117 The complicated plot is taut, the pace brisk. In all a very fine debut novel. More, please. -- Shots on The Front 20020806 'Alarming and beguiling...curiously exhilarating.' -- The Scotsman on The Front 20020806 'A confident take on the serial murder genre.' -- Irish News - Belfast 20030111 'Powerful writing' -- Scotland on Sunday 20030126 'One novel not to be forgotten in a hurry.' -- Belfast Newsletter 20030111 'Gripping' -- Scotland on Sunday 20030126
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Mandasue was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Yup, I'm from that Manchester!!!,
By Kay xxx (Rocking in Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Forget Me Not (Paperback)
I adore Mandasue Heller's books. Probably because I live in Manchester and I know Moss Side/Hulme/Cheetham Hill very well.
This tells the story of a prostitute, Pat and her daughter, Lisa. There is a murdererer who is killing prosititutes and leaving a forget me not on them. Lisa meets Benny at the school disco, who she falls head over heels for, but is he all that he seems? And who exactly is the murderer? If you loved these books, then read Martina Cole. Mandasue is the "up north" version of Martina who writes about the London underworld. While, I'm not disputing Mandasue's talent, Martina is definitely the better write. She'll blow you away.
5.0 out of 5 stars
She belongs among the best of the genre,
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This review is from: Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
In Manchester's Red Light district, a serial killer is preying on prostitutes. They are brutally killed and with each body is left the killer's calling card- a forget me not flower. Within this backdrop lives Pat Noone who has plied her trade on Westy Lane where the dead girls have worked. Pat has a twelve year old daughter, Lisa, who will be taken away from her if she is convicted one more time of prostitution. Pat, however, cannot break out of the life as she insists on drinking herself into oblivion. She chooses to ignore the inherent danger she is in by continuing her work as a prostitute. Lisa, angry about her mother's insistence on not changing, is an angry teenager. She looks for acceptance, approval and understanding from a friend, Benny- a man much older than herself. Samir Rashid is a businessman from India who is stuck in a sexually repressed marriage. He seeks solace in the arms of Pat Noone. On the trail of the killer is Detective Inspector Seddon who feels the pressure to solve the crime before others die. As the story progresses, all these characters come together for the tense and deadly climax.Mandasue Heller proves with her second exceptional novel that she is not a flash in the pan but an unusually gifted writer. The tension in her books arise not only from the compelling plots but the dead on accurate portrayals of the main protagonists. So many books written today fail to incite excitement or tension in the reader by use of these profound characterizations. They fail in either the plot or they get so into the character that plot and pacing is forgotten. Mandasue Heller manages to hold both of those pieces of the book in place I definitely look forward to her next work and if it is as good as the first two I would state emphatically that she belongs among the best of the genre. Move over Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell.
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