A tale of skullduggery that plays out on the mean streets of Glasgow. One-legged barmaid Kirsty is in a shit-load of trouble after she kills one of gangster Jimmy McPhee's enforcers with a stiletto heel to the head after he gets a bit too handsie. Now she's on the run from the gang boss who loves to torture his victims before he kills them, with a safe-load of cash she stole from him and a hot gun. And she has company--a choirboy barman Jamie who just happens to be the only witness. She needs to survive long enough to spend the cash. How difficult can it be to catch a "daft wee lassie with one leg?" Glasgow hardman Jimmy McPhee is about to find out. Kirsty's made a laughing stock out of him and he doesn't like that one wee bit. Bring together a one-legged barmaid who's legged it with a safe load of dirty cash, a spurned gangster's wife who wants a walking womb for her mail order sperm, a giant birthday cake and a mad chase to the end, and you've got How Kirsty Gets Her Kicks : one freaking minute at a time.

Praise for HOW KIRSTY GETS HER KICKS: "A high-kicking, double-barrelled, blast of grindhouse pulp." --Paul D. Brazill, author of Last Year's Man " How Kirsty Gets Her Kicks hits the ground running and does not let up for a single breathless second. I tore through this in one sitting, and it's a hell of a ride filled with colourful characters and casual violence--everything I look for in crime fiction--not to mention a lead character that takes everything thrown at her and just keeps on coming. This is a great story, and Jennifer Lee Thomson is a great story-teller." --Paul Heatley, author of Fatboy , Guillotine , and the Eye for an Eye series.