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Maureen Carter

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Former BBC Newsnight presenter Maureen has worked extensively in newspapers, radio and television. She still freelances in the business, when she's not busy novel writing. As a journalist she's worked closely with the police, covering countless crime stories, including several murders. She's also interviewed victims and seen villains sent down.

Maureen was inspired to write Working Girls by a police pilot scheme to treat younger prostitutes as victims rather than criminals.

"It set me thinking about women on the game," she says. "What made a girl risk her health, and her life, night after night? What, if any, choice did she have? I wondered: could I combine appealing characters from this largely ignored section of society with a measure of so ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 5,100 ratings · 176 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	Detective Sarah Quinn Books 1–4 (DI Sarah Quinn #1-4) 4.32 avg rating — 1,185 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next of Kin (DI Sarah Quinn #5) 4.22 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Question of Despair (DI Sarah Quinn #1) 4.12 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Love (DI Sarah Quinn #2) 4.19 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Child's Play (DI Sarah Quinn #4) 4.09 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying Bad (DI Sarah Quinn #3) 4.21 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Girls 3.89 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Old 4.12 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baby Love 4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Time 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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During my novel writing life, it was par for the course to have a WIP – an unfinished script – lying around in my study. A year and fifty-one days on from the brain attack, a WIP is how I see myself: a work in progress.

I admit, albeit a tad reluctantly (and testily), that high hopes of a complete and rapid recovery remain just that: although the hopes are a notch or three lower down.

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“If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.”
― Denise Mina, Still Midnight

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message 5: by Maureen

Feb 11, 2014 10:44AM

Just to let you know that Working Girls, the first in my Bev Morriss crime series, is - for a limited time - available for free download on Amazon! The offer runs until 8 am on Valentine's Day!

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message 4: by Maureen

Aug 06, 2013 03:21PM

Zoë wrote: "Hi Maureen. Lovely to catch up with you here. Hope everything's going well with you? When's the next book out?

Zoë"

Hi Zoe, All's good thanks! Next book - Child's Play -is due out later this year! How you? What's new? xx

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message 3: by Zoë

Aug 04, 2013 12:23PM