Gangland Girls Books in Order
Part ofDreda Say Mitchell Books in OrderThis page shows the Gangland Girls books by Dreda Say Mitchell in order, with quick summaries, series background, and where to start.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
3 books
Geezer Girls
by Dreda Say Mitchell
2009
Jade Flynn and three friends once escaped a man who used them for criminal work. Ten years later, Jade is Jackie Jarvis, ready to marry, until the Geezer returns demanding one final job.
Gangster Girl
by Dreda Say Mitchell
2010
Lawyer Daisy Sullivan wants to outrun her late father's gangster name. When her absent mother reappears with links to a prostitution ring and a crime family, Daisy is pulled into a robbery and a fight to survive.
Hit Girls
by Dreda Say Mitchell
2011
Two ten-year-old sisters are killed outside school, and their gangland family wants revenge. Jackie, Anna, Roxy, and Ollie investigate, but the case turns personal when Jackie's son disappears.
Series background & context
The Gangland Girls books are East London crime stories built around women who know how quickly respectability can crack. The series starts with Geezer Girls, where Jade Flynn and three other teenage girls are pushed into danger while living at St Nicholas Care Home for Children. Years later, Jade has become Jackie Jarvis and is trying to live a clean, settled life. Then the man they once called the Geezer comes back with a demand they cannot easily refuse.
The past does not stay polite.
Mitchell uses that setup to explore how old exploitation follows people into adulthood. Jackie and her friends have new names, new lives, and better clothes, but fear has a long memory. The tension comes from the gap between the lives they are trying to build and the criminal world that still thinks it owns them.
Gangster Girl shifts the focus to Daisy Sullivan, a lawyer whose father was a London gangster. Daisy wants distance from that legacy, but the sudden return of her mother drags her toward a prostitution ring, a feared crime family, and a bank job that is not what it first appears to be. It is a story about inheritance in the bluntest sense: the debts, enemies, and street instincts a parent can leave behind.
In Hit Girls, the series brings Jackie, Anna, Roxy, and Ollie into a murder investigation that the police cannot easily untangle. Two young girls are killed outside school, and the crime lands inside a gangland family already primed for revenge. When Jackie's own son disappears, the case stops being a job and becomes personal.
The tone is gritty, fast, and direct, with plenty of danger but also a sharp sense of friendship. These are not cosy mysteries. They are stories about women carrying damage, making risky choices, and refusing to be treated as background players in a man's criminal world.
The best way in is publication order. Start with Geezer Girls, then follow with Gangster Girl and Hit Girls. That route gives you the clearest sense of Mitchell's early gangland world, where old secrets, street codes, and female loyalty drive the action.
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