title: The Faithless: A dark thriller of intrigue and murder
author:  Martina Cole 
description: Martina Cole is the acknowledged queen of crime drama with over twenty novels to her name, of which over a dozen have been No.1 bestsellers. Several of Martina's novels have been adapted for the screen, including The Take and The Runaway which were shown on Sky 1 to remarkable reviews. In addition, Two Women and The Graft have been adapted for the stage; both were highly acclaimed when performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which also staged Dangerous Lady in 2012, celebrating twenty years since Martina's debut novel was published. Martina Cole is a phenomenon. She continues to smash sales records with each of her books, which have sold thirteen million copies. In 2011 Martina surpassed the GBP50 million sales mark since records began and was the first British female novelist for adult audiences to achieve this - and she has spent more weeks in the No. 1 slot on the original fiction bestseller list than any other adult novelist. Her hard-hitting, uncompromising and haunting writing is in a genre all its own - no one writes like Martina.
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  ### [About Faith Martin
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  **FAITH MARTIN** has been writing for nearly thirty years, under four
  different pen names, and is about to have her fiftieth novel published. She
  began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, but quickly turned to crime!
  As Joyce Cato she wrote classic-style whodunits, since she’s always admired
  the golden-age crime novelists. But it was when she created her fictional DI,
  Hillary Greene, and began writing under the name of Faith Martin, that she
  finally began to become more widely known. Her latest literary characters, WPC
  Trudy Loveday and city coroner Dr Clement Ryder, take readers back to the
  1960s, and the city of Oxford. Having lived within a few miles of the city’s
  dreaming spires all her life (she worked for six years as a secretary at
  Somerville College), both the city and the countryside/wildlife often feature
  in her novels. Althou