The Capello Family: Book 1
Publication Date: June 30, 2025
Betrayal cuts deep when it comes from within the family…
Maria, Alex and Antonio Capello were raised by their gangster father with just one rule: family is everything. Now he’s dead, Maria works as a lawyer by day and a mob boss by night: risking everything if her secret life is ever revealed.
She trusts her smart, suave, dependable brother, Alex, with her life, but it breaks her heart that she can’t say the same about Antonio. As the black sheep of the family, Antonio is here for a good time, not a long time.
So when the head of another firm visits with news about Antonio causing problems in the grimy underworld of London’s Soho, Maria is furious. Of course she wants to protect her baby brother, but he just made an enemy of one of the deadliest families in London. If she doesn’t act now, all hell will break loose.
But Maria and Alex have no idea that Antonio has already taken his bad behaviour to the next level. He’s broken every rule they’ve ever lived by. Maria finds herself with a decision to make – look out for the firm or protect Antonio and risk everything her father built going up in flames. Can the Capellos survive, or will bad blood kill them off for good?
Fans of Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose and Kimberley Chambers will absolutely love this first book in a thrilling new series from bestselling gangland author Emma Tallon.
For Maria Capello, public image is everything. As a barrister, she’s worked her way up the social ladder, gathering favors any way she can.
What most people don’t realize is she and her two siblings run the criminal firm inherited from their father. In addition to drugs and counterfeit money, the firm has a reputation for delivering permanent solutions to customer problems.
Author Emma Tallon takes that dynamic and shakes it up in A Family Betrayal. If there is one important concept, it is loyalty within the family. It’s one thing to take down a rival crime boss, but what happens when the culprit is within the family?
Fast-paced storytelling combines with action in this crime thriller. There’s also a fascinating secondary storyline featuring a woman whose despicable husband steals her inheritance.
The author serves up a slight cliffhanger as an enticement for the second installment in the series.
A Family Betrayal introduces the Capello crime family and explores the cracks caused by an insider.
Emma Tallon is a British author of gripping, gritty, organised-crime thrillers and mother of two.
Having started her writing career as a freelance ghostwriter, Emma finished her first novel, Runaway Girl, in 2016, and became an author full time. Since then she has written several other novels for her publisher and has carved out a successful career for herself from her home in Milton Keynes, where she can usually be found typing away in her office surrounded by large stacks of books and Post-it Notes full of ideas for future stories.
