Description
'The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin
GIRLFRIEND. WITNESS. MURDERER?
When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is thrown into a difficult situation. 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. Panic-stricken, she sets out in pursuit of the truth and soon picks up a horrifying trail of deception and suppressed scandal. Then a second body is discovered. Maureen realises that unless she gets to the killer first, her life is in danger...
'One of the most original voices in crime fiction' Daily Mail
With an introduction by VAL McDERMID
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*Don't miss Denise Mina's most recent thriller, the Costa 2020 shortlisted, THE LESS DEAD*
The award-winning debut crime novel by the author of The Long Drop, now in a new edition with an introduction by Val McDermid
About the Author
Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio and Three Fires. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Reviews
Thought-provoking and sparkily written... A perceptive, surprisingly upbeat read -- Val McDermid
Funny, raw, compassionate, often brutal, Garnethill turns a wry humour on the shortcomings of its very human characters * Independent *
Splendidly written... magnificently readable * The Times *
One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years -- Ian Rankin
Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence -- Mark Billingham
Book Information
ISBN 9781784709549
Author Denise Mina
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 27mm