Glasgow police view her as both a suspect and an unstable witness - and even her mother is convinced of her involvement. Feeling betrayed by friends and family, Maureen begins to doubt her own version of events.
The first novel in the addictive Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina. ‘The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years’ Ian Rankin In Glasgow, a child goes missing, taken from the front garden of his home.
Read the third novel in the Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina. ‘One of the most original voices in crime fiction’ Daily Mail Paddy Meehan finally has it all: a flat of her own in Glasgow and a job as one of Scotland’s leading newspaper columnists.
A brutal attack. A mysterious demand for money. An unexpected kidnap... A superb novel from the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD and Costa shortlisted author of THE LESS DEAD
'This is crime writing of the highest order' The Times**THE TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2020****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD**When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead.
From the multi-award-winning Denise Mina comes a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history – the bloody assassination of David Rizzio in Mary, Queen of Scots' chambers in Holyrood Palace.
"This is Marlowe.""Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by thephone for an appointed hour, following someone else's orders to the letter. "What, d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is only me.'
Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose hellfire and damnation sermons pushed the city of Florence to its breaking point. In Three Fires, Denise Mina brings a modern take to this... Læs mere