Crooked

Ashia ‘Ash’ Cox isn’t your average teenager. She’s a sixteen-year-old con artist headed forgreatness – until celebrity criminal Harry Holmes destroys the family and life she loves.Taking matters into her own hands, Ash links up with Esther Crook – a legendary con who hasher own motivations against Holmes and his associates. After a little persuasion, Esther putstogether a new crew using Ash as ‘the insider’. The crew feel the heat of the criminals on oneside and the encroaching crime agencies on the other, but as the heist unfurls, who is reallydoing the conning and who is pulling the strings?With plot twists aplenty, Crooked raises the stakes in crime fiction as the plot equally surprises –and cons – the reader.

Bronwen John is a Civil Servant with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Wales. She has previously published four poetry anthologies which include; The Kardomah Kid (2011), Mind The Gap (2013), The Lotus Blossom and The Kardomah Kid (2017), as well as a children’s book, The Mystery of Smugglers Drift (2017). She lives in a tiny village in Dyffryn Cellwen, Wales.