A Working Girls Series Spin-off

Manchester Thrillers
1. Guilt (2022)
2. Blackmail (2023)
3. Redemption (2023)

Guilt is the first book in The Manchester Thrillers series. Published in 2022. I'm finally getting around to reading some of the books on my huge TBR and I have to say I'm glad I chose this one to read today. I have enjoyed it so much I've downloaded the 2nd book = Blackmail, so I can read it right away.

Laura - The owner of 5 high end boutiques. All called Crystal. When graffiti and damage to her stock starts to happen around her stores, Laura knows someone from her past is trying to scare her. They seem to be succeeding.
This book is filled with lies, deceit and crime. It's full of twists. As the truth from the past starts to unravel the story just ramps up it's pace. An excellent read.

This is the sixth book in the Working Girls series but you can read it as a standalone. This book focuses on Crystal who was also featured in book three of the series. Who is targeting Laura's businesses and family and will the harassment and damage push her over the edge and tip her back into her old ways?

You will most definitely enjoy this book and it may well tempt you to go back and read the whole series and Burnside's back catalogue too!

This is everything I'd expect from a novel by Heather. Fast paced kept me at the end of my seat from the start till the end. Loved it!

After giving up working the street in search of a better life, Laura Sharples (aka Crystal, former prostitute) had no idea a ghost from her past would reappear in search of revenge.

This is a fantastic read with an excellent storyline. Highly unsettling and oh so tense, I found myself devouring Guilt at every given moment. I have to say, I guessed the perpetrator from rather very early on but that certainly didn't take away from the enjoyment of the book.

I believe this is the sixth book in the Working Girls series however it can most definitely be read and appreciated as a standalone given I haven't read the previous in the series.

I'll be on the look out for future reads from Heather Burnside!

Thank you to NetGalley and Head of Zeus for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review 📖

Guilt by Heather Burnside was another excellent book and this one is the 6th book in the brilliant ‘Working Girl’s’ Series. However, it can be read as a standalone book but I so recommend you go back and read all the other five books They will not disappoint. Heather has a way of writing to bring you into the book from the very first few pages till the very end. Just brilliant!

5 BIG ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is the 6th episode in the working girls series and it's brilliant.
I loved every page I turned.

After being a working girl on the streets and a drug addict a long time ago Laura whose street name was (Crystal) has done good. She's got a string of highly successful clothes shops all named after her street name. Then things start to go wrong when one of her shops is vandalised with graffiti, then clothes are sprayed with paint. She is terrified that her past is coming back to haunt her. But by who and why?
Here the story unfolds and becomes a fast-paced thriller that grips you to the bone.

A greatly written book with a good description of the characters and the surrounding area which really helped the reader to visualise the story.
This is a very addictive book and well worth a read.
Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this excellent book. xxx

Laura Sharples is a business woman with a chain of high-end fashion boutiques in the North of England. She has worked hard and has come a long way from her days working the streets as a prostitute called Crystal.

Laura has never forgotten those days and now her life revolves around her daughter Candice and her business. She knows that she can never slip back to her old days of drugs and addiction.

However, out of the blue one of her shops is vandalised and the perpetrator seems to be making a direct reference to Crystal. At first it seems like an isolated incident, but then another more violent one occurs.

Laura is terrified and before she knows it she begins to go back to some of her old habits. The issue that she is scared of is that someone must know who she used to be, but what do they want and why now?

This is a nail-biting thriller that is dark and full of suspense, I didn’t want to put it down. I really loved the structure of shorter chapters as it kept me hooked and wanting to know who had committed all of the crimes against Laura.

I highly recommend this book, especially if you’re a fan of psychological thrillers. It is the first book that I have read by Heather Burnside and I can’t wait to read more by this author.

📚📖 Book Review 📖📚

📖 Book - Guilt
✍️ Author - Heather Burnside
📕 Publisher - Head of Zeus
🗓 Publication Date - 4th Aug 2022


Laura has a few shows in which she sells fashionable clothes. Her shops are call crystal and one day, she gets a call to say there has been some graffiti in the front of her first shop. It has to be done by someone who knows her, someone who knows her Strip Name was Crystal!!

What will she tell her daughter?!

I’m going to be honest here….. I enjoyed this book but I guessed how the ending was going to pan out from the start, for me this kind of ruined my reading this book. I get annoyed at myself for this at times !!

I have enjoyed other books by the author and really enjoyed them.

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If you are a lover of gangland thrillers, you will love 'Guilt' by Heather Burnside!

This gripping, absorbing, fast-paced thriller captivates throughout, resulting in a quick read. The plot twists are excellently executed, and the storyline is full of action and drama.

It takes talent and fantastic writing skills to make a gangland thriller realistic and not over the top, and I am delighted to say Heather Burnside has managed just this! She has created some convincing characters, and I was particularly compelled to Laura for the entirety.

However, there are sensitive topics within this storyline (sex workers and domestic abuse, as well as others), but these are written well and provide depth and emotion where needed. Some readers may find parts of this upsetting, and comprehensive research is advisable.

I highly recommend this newly released read to fans of this genre, and I will pick up future releases from this author without hesitation!

This latest offering from heather atkinson has the reader transported back to a character from the working girls series namely crystal. Nowadays crystal is known as Laura Sharples and owns a successful chain of high fashion women’s clothes shops. Life is good until the shops start being targeted on what seems to be a hate campaign with each attack getting worse and more ferocious. Laura suspects someone from her past but who?

I’ve always enjoyed this series of books and this latest offering to a good addition.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

As always as soon as I get my hands on a copy of a Heather Burnside book I know I'm in for a treat and #guilt (#6 in The Working Girls series) was no exception. Every time I tell myself that I'm going to savour it, take my time but it's a big fat fail, Catching up with the drama and exploits that seem to surround Laura aka Crystal and from the very first page we're dragged right in.

After a difficult and shady start in life Laura Whitman is now a successful business woman with several boutiques under her belt when she becomes the target of a hate campaign. It seems as if her past is coming home to roost. Out with her daughter Candice for some quality time together she gets a call from a store Manager about graffiti outside one of her stores saying "Crystal is a whore", Needlessly to say it's just the tip of the iceberg of this story, so buckle up peeps.

If you read authors such as Kimberly Chambers, Marnie Riches and Mandasue Heller then I'd suggest you pick up a Heather Burnside book. I'd say you could read it as a standalone but as always I think that you should start at the beginning with #themark.

Thanks to the author Heather Burnside<, @HeadofZeus and #Netgalley for my ARC, All opinions are mine and mine alone,

I’d like to thank Head of Zeus, Aries and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Guilt’ by Heather Burnside in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Laura Sharples thought she’d left her previous existence as a working girl behind her but when her designer fashion boutiques are vandalised and their managers attacked she realises that someone knows she used to be called Crystal and that her past has finally caught up with her.

‘Guilt’ is the sixth in the ‘Working Girls’ series and although the previous five have been fantastic this has got to be the best one yet. It’s gritty and down-to-earth with intrigue, suspense, interesting characters and twists and turns and I’ve been so enthralled by what Laura and her daughter Candice are being put through that I’ve not been able to stop reading and have finished the book in less than a day. This is a well-written and involving drama with a compelling and very exciting ending, and I congratulate Ms Burnside on yet another brilliant novel. Will there be another in the series? I do hope so.

Guilt is the 6th book in the excellent Working Girls series. I have loved each and every book in this series and couldn't wait to start reading this new instalment. (Don't worry if you haven't read the other books in this series as this can be read as a stand alone story). This book did not disappoint. This is a fantastic read, an excellent story line with some great characters. Couldn't put it down!

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I know who you are
I know what you did
I'm coming for you
Working girls book six
And wow it's a cracker.
Laura Sharples running her five fashion boutiques and trade is blooming with her daughter Candice at university and living in a new four bed house things could not be better for her since her days a s working girl Crystal.
But then things start to happen graffiti starts appearing on her shops and they are nasty and clothes stock is ripped she doesn't like it her past is that she wants to be forgotten, so who is out there that knows it all and wants her ruined?
Candice's boyfriend Thomas Foster's dad offers her a job during the term time as her mother doesn't think its safe for her to work the boutiques.
Laura has so much going on and wants to be left alone and turns to drink again
will she see happiness ever again in her life, there's just no holding back and her guilt just gets worse .
As always the author has delivered once again, and this is one of the best in the working girls for me to date, so much going on as you read, and so many are guilty as you read on then tou see the twists, fantastic read right through.

I have truly loved the working girls series and this the sixth book is just as good. Reallynice to follow up on crystals story, great read.

This is the 6th book in the brilliant ‘Working Girl’s’ Series which can easily be read as a stand alone or as a continuation of the series
Heather Burnside is back with another explosive, fast action story, we meet Laura and Candice,Mum and Daughter,Laura runs a chain of designer clothes shops in well to do Cheshire…..but she has a past, a big past….Candice knows this but has never realised the full extent of the horrors her Mum went through….but life is good for them both now….nothing can change that, the past is the past…until it becomes the horrifying present
The author writes a perfect tale again of love,hate,revenge and secrets all wrapped up in ‘real’ life family drama….the characters grab you and keep you throughout the story and take you on a journey they and you will never forget
Guilt is real but is it always warranted…..only we as readers can decide.

10/10
5 Stars

What can I say brilliant I read this book in 1 day couldn't put it down . Just love how you see the characters from there life before . Loved it

Fab fab fab!!!

Heather Burnside pulls another cracker out of the bag, I was totally engaged and engrossed throughout, who is it, who is it!

Laura, formally Crystal has turned around her life and is now business owner, her past catches up with her and someone is out to destruct.

This can totally be read as a stand alone but highly reccomend you read Crystal to get the background story of Laura and daughter Candice.

High five from me ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Crystal gave up her life on the streets to make a better life for her and her daughter Candice. Just when she thought it was all behind her the past comes back to haunt her and demesne is trying to sabotage her legitimate businesses. But when she discovers who it is, will anyone believe her? Brilliant read, with a good twist.

This is the fifth book in the Working Girls series but it reads great as a standalone. This is, I think, the third in the series that I have read and the author needs to be applauded as she uses everyday language to progress the story and she has a great way with the way she writes dialogue as you feel that you are in the room listening to a conversation. Obviously we are talking gritty crime about working girls here so the details have to be there but the author deals with them with compassion and understanding and there are a few twists and turns along the way. The characters grow on you and you begin to hope that things work out well.
Don't be afraid of the subject matter as this is an enjoyable book that is difficult to put down