The second novel in a projected trilogy, EXILE revisits the life of Maureen O'Donnell, who first appeared in Mina's debut GARNETHILL. Maureen escapes the dreariness of her life in Glasgow to go to London, where she is to search for a missing acquaintance, Ann Harris. In London, Maureen wades into a community of dangerous dope-running Scottish ...
Maureen O'Donnell, ex-psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, is facing the darkest episode in her life. Her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of her sister's new baby; she owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; and Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend is up for trial, with Maureen ...
In this Scottish literary thriller, Dr. Susie Harriot, a psychiatrist at a Glasgow mental hospital, is tried and convicted of murdering a former patient, and is also suspected in the disappearance of the victim's new wife. Susie's husband, Lachlan, is trying to assemble an appeal for his wife's case by going through her office, and instead ...
When Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, is called to a domestic dispute at a house in a wealthy suburb in the north of the city, it seems like just another police call. The blonde bleeding from a head injury in the shadows doesn't want any help; and the well dressed man at the front door assures Paddy that everything's fine, and ...
A 10-year-old Glasgow boy has been accused of murdering a smaller child--and in Scotland, legal responsibility for a crime begins at age 8. The boy's adult cousin, Sean Ogilvy, is enlisted by his fiancée Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a newspaper reporter covering the crime, to help her interview the boy. In addition, Paddy breaks up with him. And, in a ...
A brilliant new thriller featuring Paddy Meehan, one of the most praised heroines since Temperance Brennan. Paddy is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police.
When Maureen, a hard-talking, hard-drinking Glaswegian girl, finally decides she is going to end her affair with a married man, she wakes up to a big surprise: she finds him in her living room with his throat cut. Viewed by the police as a possible suspect, she sets out to prove her innocence.
This gritty, award-winning debut novel is set in the grim precincts of Glasgow's Garnethill. There the unlucky Maureen O'Donnell wakes up one morning to discover her therapist-boyfriend dead in the living room. Recently recovered from a breakdown, Maureen now finds herself the prime suspect in a grisly murder case.
A powerful new stand-alone novel by Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina: 'one of the finest crime writers of her generation' EXPRESS Lachlan Harriot is in a state of shock. His wife Susie has been convicted of the murder of serial killer Andrew Gow, a prisoner in her care. Unless Harriot can come up with grounds for an appeal in two weeks' ...
It is Glasgow in 1990. Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. He's been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort ...
Life ought to be simple for DI Alex Morrow. She's an up-and-coming Glasgow cop, just about to be presented with the case that could make her career. Her half-brother Danny is also on the up. Unfortunately for her, he's making his name on the other side of the tracks - in the murky shadows of Glasgow's criminal underworld. Nearby, a peaceful Sunday ...
Award-winning novelist Denise Mina (The Dead Hour, Deception, Field of Blood), one of the hottest rising talents in crime fiction, takes the hard-drinking master of bad-luck magic on one of the most haunting chapters in his macabre career. This volume features Constantine facing perhaps the most difficult task of his life: a dream of universal ...
In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a hole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbors, cheating husbands, fickle female friends, careers left behind, out-of-control kids, steamy sex, and much, much more in this thrilling collection of never-before-published ...
All the short stories are brand new, specially commissioned for the title. The authors were asked for a story which features a crime and is set in Edinburgh. The results range from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural. Contributors of this title are Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, ...
Life ought to be simple for DI Alex Morrow. She's an up-and-coming Glasgow cop, just about to be presented with the case that could make her career. Her half-brother Danny is also on the up. Unfortunately for her, he's making his name on the other side of the tracks - in the murky shadows of Glasgow's criminal underworld. Nearby, a peaceful Sunday ...
Almost everyone will be affected by crime at some point in life, either directly as a victim or witness of a crime or indirectly through family, friends or work colleagues. Few events in a person's life are more traumatic and that's why the work of Victim Support Scotland (VSS) is so important. Since 1985 VSS has helped more than one million ...
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