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Discover the second novel in the pulse-racing Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina.
‘Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence’ Mark Billingham
Journalist Paddy Meehan is called to a domestic dispute in a wealthy Glasgow suburb. The woman bleeding from a head injury doesn’t want any help and the well-dressed man beside her assures Paddy that everything is fine. But when she is given a £50 note to keep quiet, she becomes suspicious.
The next morning, the woman is dead. Paddy has found the story she has been waiting for, yet she will lose all credibility if word gets out about her bribe. To make matters worse, the police who attended the scene are twisting the evidence. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark truth that could make her career – or get her killed.
‘Splendidly written… Magnificently readable’ The Times
Editore : Vintage (14 febbraio 2019)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina flessibile : 384 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1784709530
ISBN-13 : 978-1784709532
Peso articolo : 266 g
Dimensioni : 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
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Getting a bit obsessed with Denise Mina! Sheâs a relatively recent discovery for me and I just love her books – such a brilliant writer – great plots and characters. This is a brilliant trilogy and Iâve loved every one of them, including this one. So much so, Iâve just read them one after another.
Very good description of characters and sense of place. However the plot has important holes that detract from the narrative and from understanding characterâs motivations.
This is the 2nd novel starring Paddy Meehan that I have read. There is something endearing and compelling about her. She is a young, slightly overweight, news gal living in 1980’s Glascow, Scotland. She always seems to get the scut jobs and, of course, stumbles into a murder situation. She is clever, street smart and working her way out of poverty. Generally, I do not like too much personal detail in the murder mysteries like romance that overwhelms the mystery. But somehow Ms. Mina pulls it off very well.
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Second in the Paddy Meehan series. Takes place a few years after the first, as it seems they all do. I read right after the first.Main character is younger than I’m used to, flawed and fallible, and not a genius. Voice is omniscient. However, the observations of human nature and the way things unfold, even if the reader may be more clever than some of the characters, makes the novel worth the read, and made me want to read the next in the series, and the next.This is not a mystery that ties everything up with cute little bows. This is neither Nancy Drew nor Miss Marple. Nice, gritty realism I think women will be drawn to, even if they don’t fall in love with the characters. Men may also enjoy, of course. But women tend to be into the darker stuff, I think.Some sentences are wonderful and made me want to call someone and say “listen to this” but instead, I am recommending the books.