Beatrix Rose has been betrayed. Her husband has been murdered and her daughter, Isabella, abducted. She flees to the Hong Kong underworld to plot her revenge. Those who wronged her will pay. Beatrix is the most dangerous woman you’ve ever met. She was an assassin for The Firm, the beyond top secret agency that did the dirty work for the British Secret Services. She is lethal. Ethically flexible. Totally ruthless. And you know what they say about payback….
Beatrix needs cash to pay for the search for Isabella. When she rescues a local man from a brutal beating in a Kowloon karaoke bar, she ends up finding moneymaking opportunities in the local underworld. The triads have a need for a woman with her particular skills, but when the boss goes too far, he has to pay the price. In a breakneck-paced roller coaster of action, Beatrix discovers that danger lurks in the unlikeliest of places, and nothing is as it seems.
Mark Dawson has worked as a lawyer and currently works in the London film industry. His first books, The Art of Falling Apart and Subpoena Colada, have been published in multiple languages. He is currently writing three series. The John Milton series features a disgruntled assassin who aims to help people to make amends for the things that he has done. The Beatrix Rose series features the headlong fight for justice of a wronged mother – who happens to be an assassin – against the six names on her kill list.
Soho Noir is set in the West End of London between 1940 and 1970. The first book in the series, The Black Mile, deals with the (real-life but little known) serial killer who operated in the area during the Blitz. The Imposter traces the journey of a criminal family through the period; it has been compared to The Sopranos in austerity London.
Beatrix Rose in Hong Kong fills in the blanks with all that you can expect and more! I, too, signed up to be a reviewer. As such, I have to read carefully and look for discrepancies and report them for the final product. I am proud to do this for Mark Dawson as he writes fantastic books.Â
A Stunning Set of Novellas with a Fierce Female Protagonist In a 3-novella boxed set, author Mark Dawson introduces us to Beatrix Rose, an off-the-books assassin for the British government cabal known as The Group (also featured in Dawson’s John Milton series). Beatrix had been their “Number 1” until The Group killed her husband and kidnapped her young daughter. Now, she is on the run from her former employer while continuing the search for her daughter, Isabella. These novellas tell the story of Beatrix’s time in Hong Kong with Dawson’s aching sense of…
At last, the Beatrix Rose story that fills in the blanks!! First, I will be honest in saying that I am a member of the advance team for Mark Dawson’s books, and, because of this, I get free copies in exchange for suggestions regarding editing and then for an honest review. However, no matter which books I get for free, I have always bought the books when they were released, and I just bought this whole set. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, I love to re-read them, and it is better reading them from the main section of my Kindle than from the…