Karen Woods

A crime saga from a northern voice with grit, heart and an extra shot of authenticity. Susan Knight has a good life. So she turns a blind eye to the gambling winnings her husband Donny puts through the books at her salon. After all, he needs some way to unwind. At work, he is headteacher at Second Chance, an alternative provision school for kids who have nowhere else to go. Being the headteacher gives Donny respect, money, and charm. But respect can...

Lust, power, revenge: the gripping new gangland thriller from Karen Woods — the writer to show you the dark side of Manchester. Two women — one too innocent, one who knows too much. They have secrets, but none as lethal as those they uncover, when they get caught up in turf wars between two strip club owners on the back streets of Manchester. Elsa Bradshaw is 18. Despite a tough start — never knowing her father, and barely seeing her mother...

What would you do if you woke up one morning and learned you had lived for five years with a serial rapist/killer? How would you react especially when you knew he had been your stepfather? In this true story of Karen Woods, a fifty-something-year-old woman, you will learn how she reacted to that knowledge. When she was eight years old, her birth mother met and married Willie Roy Jenkins, a man who in 2013 was tried and convicted of committing the...

When her gangster boyfriend Tim is sent down, Susie Jones' life is thrown into turmoil. Left to run his criminal empire, Susie finds solace in new acquaintances made in Strangeways Visitors' Centre... with unforeseen consequences.