Kimberley Chambers

Before the Butlers, came QUEENIE?Whitechapel in the 1930s was not an easy place to be brought up, and when the war came those with nothing were hit the hardest. Queenie watched her family struggle and learned her lessons the hard way. When she was a little girl there was one thing Queenie knew - she was going to get out of this? And then tall, dark and handsome Alfie Butler walks into her life and gives Queenie her ticket out. One rushed wedding later,...

Not all sons make their mother proud? June Dawson has come a long way from her rough East End background. She now lives in a nice little cul-de-sac in Rainham with her ultra-respectable husband and a lovely social life. But her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life drug addict boyfriend, Billy McDaid. June feels as though she is being sucked back into the world of villains and thugs she thought she had...

Old loyalties die hard on the streets of London. Tommy throws his lot in with the notorious Darling family - even if it means leaving childhood friend Scratch to the wolves. She's destined for a different path, reinventing herself as copper Kim Regan. Now they're on opposite sides of the law. Running Operation Sting, Kim will rip the heart out of the Darling's empire - and only her old pal Tommy stands in her way.

Vinny Butler has used his time in prison well: to plan the downfall of all who've wronged him. As always with the Butlers, family comes first: Vinny's brother Michael may think he's the top dog running the family business, but it won't last when Vinny finds out how good his brother's got it. Meanwhile, Vinny is incensed when he finds out that Joanna had a baby in secret while he was in prison - but that's nothing compared to his anger when he finds...

There's never a dull moment in the Butler family and when Vinny starts to receive mysterious packages containing dead creatures, it can only mean one thing. someone is out for blood. For a long time, Vinny Butler and Eddie Mitchell ruled their manors from a respectful distance. Now they're doing business together and their family has just been united in a way they never expected. But after one murder too many things start to unravel. The past comes...

The heir to Martina Cole's crown returns with 'The Schemer', a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery, set in London's East End and Essex.

When the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard. The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is 'what goes around, comes around'. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's nephew's death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. One by one, Vinny's friends and family are turning against him. Then, the unimaginable happens - Vinny's little daughter Molly goes missing. She's the one...