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When rock journalist Nina Vincent witnesses the murder of John Lennon, she has two forget about it, or write about it.
Thirty years on, the glamorous harpy is The Worst Lady of Fleet Street, with an estranged husband, a psychologically compromised son, and not one but two married lovers. Her best friend is a weary police detective, and her prominent divorce barrister is obsessed with her. To top it all, she works for the editor from hell. Life is complicated, to say the least.
Then an A-list rocker is found dead in Los Angeles – the first in a series of rock-star murders around the world, all hallmarked by identical mutilations. The victims have something else in their relationships with Nina. Has her colourful past caught up with her at last?
Thirty years on, the glamorous harpy is The Worst Lady of Fleet Street, with an estranged husband, a psychologically compromised son, and not one but two married lovers. Her best friend is a weary police detective, and her prominent divorce barrister is obsessed with her. To top it all, she works for the editor from hell. Life is complicated, to say the least.
Then an A-list rocker is found dead in Los Angeles – the first in a series of rock-star murders around the world, all hallmarked by identical mutilations. The victims have something else in their relationships with Nina. Has her colourful past caught up with her at last?
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Published December 3, 2015
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About the author
Lesley-Ann Jones
30 books88 followersLesley-Ann Jones is a British biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker.
She honed her craft on Fleet Street, where she worked as a newspaper columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She has also worked extensively in radio and television, appears regularly in music documentaries in the UK, USA and Australia, and is the writer and co-producer of ‘The Last Lennon Interview’, a film about the final encounter, in New York, between the former Beatle and BBC Radio One presenter Andy Peebles.
Her debut memoir ‘Tumbling Dice’ is out now.
NB: the cover of TUMBLING DICE displayed here is NOT the current, correct one, but is of an edition that was never published! It appears to be impossible to change it! The ISBN for the CORRECT, CURRENT VERSION is 978109175
First serialisation rights for TUMBLING DICE were acquired by the Mail on Sunday UK, published across four pages on 7th April 2019. Second serial went to The Times, UK, featured as a double-page spread on 10th April.
The author’s interview with US ABC Radio network is syndicated to 2,000 stations across the United States. She has discussed the book on most BBC local stations, including BBC York, Northampton, Guernsey, Cornwall, Solent, Hereford & Worcester, Derby and Oxford. Live radio exposure continues over the coming weeks, with BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms Show, Wandsworth Radio, Express FM’s The Soft Rock Show, K107FM Scotland, Wycombe Sound, Camglen Radio (Scotland), the Sticks Radio Show & podcast, BBC Radio Kent, Radio Caroline, Talk Radio’s The Paul Ross Show and Talk Radio Europe’s Bill Padley Show.
Lesley-Ann Jones’s agents are currently negotiating with two independent production majors on a screen adaptation of TUMBLING DICE.
Other recent works include ‘Hero: David Bowie’, ‘Imagine’, and ‘Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan’. Her globally-acclaimed definitive biography of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, re-issued in 2019 as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The book accompanies the band’s long-awaited eponymous feature film, the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.
The author is currently working on two further titles, for publication in 2020.
She is a mother of three, and lives in London.
She honed her craft on Fleet Street, where she worked as a newspaper columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She has also worked extensively in radio and television, appears regularly in music documentaries in the UK, USA and Australia, and is the writer and co-producer of ‘The Last Lennon Interview’, a film about the final encounter, in New York, between the former Beatle and BBC Radio One presenter Andy Peebles.
Her debut memoir ‘Tumbling Dice’ is out now.
NB: the cover of TUMBLING DICE displayed here is NOT the current, correct one, but is of an edition that was never published! It appears to be impossible to change it! The ISBN for the CORRECT, CURRENT VERSION is 978109175
First serialisation rights for TUMBLING DICE were acquired by the Mail on Sunday UK, published across four pages on 7th April 2019. Second serial went to The Times, UK, featured as a double-page spread on 10th April.
The author’s interview with US ABC Radio network is syndicated to 2,000 stations across the United States. She has discussed the book on most BBC local stations, including BBC York, Northampton, Guernsey, Cornwall, Solent, Hereford & Worcester, Derby and Oxford. Live radio exposure continues over the coming weeks, with BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms Show, Wandsworth Radio, Express FM’s The Soft Rock Show, K107FM Scotland, Wycombe Sound, Camglen Radio (Scotland), the Sticks Radio Show & podcast, BBC Radio Kent, Radio Caroline, Talk Radio’s The Paul Ross Show and Talk Radio Europe’s Bill Padley Show.
Lesley-Ann Jones’s agents are currently negotiating with two independent production majors on a screen adaptation of TUMBLING DICE.
Other recent works include ‘Hero: David Bowie’, ‘Imagine’, and ‘Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan’. Her globally-acclaimed definitive biography of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, re-issued in 2019 as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The book accompanies the band’s long-awaited eponymous feature film, the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.
The author is currently working on two further titles, for publication in 2020.
She is a mother of three, and lives in London.
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April 25, 2017
This book reads like it's trying to emulate Mad Men style quick and witty dialogue... and totally missing the mark. Characters have some turns of phrase that don't make any sense, or they will truncate a word to seem 'with it'. This style might appeal to some people, but it read as very try-hard to me, personally. I couldn't finish this one. I need more description and less attempt at witticisms.
May 3, 2016
HARRY!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
OH, BOY!!!! YOU C**T!!!!!!!
I THINK I KNOW WHO ROXY IS…
OH MY GOD!!!!!!
Am spent. (Please forgive him, Nina…)
I love this book. Super-sharp, super-funny, super-evocative, and super-addictive.
Paper cuts from the speedy page-turning.
For music lovers, print lovers and 'WTAF?!' lovers.
A thrilling thriller.
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. And mutilation. Thumbs up. But I won't tell you where…
Fabulous book.
OH, BOY!!!! YOU C**T!!!!!!!
I THINK I KNOW WHO ROXY IS…
OH MY GOD!!!!!!
Am spent. (Please forgive him, Nina…)
I love this book. Super-sharp, super-funny, super-evocative, and super-addictive.
Paper cuts from the speedy page-turning.
For music lovers, print lovers and 'WTAF?!' lovers.
A thrilling thriller.
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll. And mutilation. Thumbs up. But I won't tell you where…
Fabulous book.
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