Mandasue Heller
1) Run
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being cheated on by her ex, Leanne Riley is trying her hardest to get her life back on track, which isn't easy without a job and living in a bedsit surrounded by a junkie and a mad woman. On a night out with her best friend she meets Jake, a face from her past who has changed beyond all recognition. Jake is charming, handsome and loaded, a far cry from the gawky teenager he used to be. Weary of men, Leanne isn't easy to please, but Jake tries...
2) Afraid
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When 15-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins. No one will let her talk to her father, and the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying 'home' that's more like a jail. But she still has one friend to turn to: the sympathetic girl she's met in an internet chat room, the one who seems to have...
5) Respect
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Chantelle has everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have...
6) Save me
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Fisher misses her train home one night, she has no idea that being in the right place at the wrong time will change her life forever. That night she comes across Gareth, a young man about to take his own life, because as far as he's concerned there is nothing left to live for. Putting her own life in danger Ellie convinces Gareth that there is always something left. Her own life is no bed of roses, she explains, but she always pushes on....
8) The charmer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maria is an ambitious young graduate about to embark on a journey round the world with friends. Her life is a million miles from that of her early childhood in Manchester. A life she had escaped from when her mother was murdered. When a letter informing her that she has inherited a property arrives, it changes all her plans.
9) Broke
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best. But she doesn't want to know just how bad things are until his gambling habit brings the debt collector to her door. And Amy's troubles are only beginning. Someone else wants Mark for herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect and even her children.
10) The front
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When old school friends Lee, Mal, Ged and Sam decide to make some easy money by robbing a Manchester supermarket, they find themselves caught up in a dangerous game with major players in the criminal underworld.
11) Two-faced
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mia and Michelle couldn't look more alike - or act more differently. When disaster strikes, Michelle has to pretend to be Mia. Michelle saves her career, and turns out to have star quality too. She's even got someone to fall in love with her - a man Mia wants almost as much as she wants to be a supermodel.
12) Lost angel
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Johnny, forced to marry a gangster's daughter, can't leave his wife without being killed by her vicious father. Now the best thing in his life - his daughter Angel - is 16 and history starts repeating itself when she falls for one of his employees, a nice boy who really loves her. But destructive secrets are about to come out.
13) Shafted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Gutted when his latest show is axed, Larry's unimpressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show. However, it rockets his career back to prime time stardom. When shy, lovely Stephanie enters his life he's suddenly back on the top of his game. This is going to make some people very, very angry indeed.
14) Snatched
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Her schoolgirl daughter disappears, her little boy nearly dies in a fire - single mother Sue Day thinks things can't get worse. But Sue's troubles are just beginning. As neighbours, social services and police turn the spotlight on Sue and her ex-husband, someone is making sure that her luck stays bad.
15) The game
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Mary James is a bright, confident, rebellious teenager who never sticks to the rules. Thrown out of the family home on the notorious Crescents estate, she soon learns how tough life can really be.
16) Forget me not
Author
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Manchester's Westly 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.
17) The club
Author
Language
English
Description
Jenna soon realises that there's more to running a nightclub than she thought, and some of her colleagues have ambitions of their own. Three men offer help. One is out for himself. One wants to help her. And one of them offers to help her deal with the criminals who are threatening both Zenith and Jenna.