Garnethill

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‘The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years’ Ian RankinGIRLFRIEND. 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 MailWith an introduction by VAL McDERMID________________*Don’t miss Denise Mina’s most recent thriller, the Costa 2020 shortlisted, THE LESS DEAD*

Additional information

Weight 0.309 kg
Dimensions 2.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

448

Publisher

Year Published

2018-7-19

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784709549

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.

Review Quote

Thought-provoking and sparkily written… A perceptive, surprisingly upbeat read

Other text

Funny, raw, compassionate, often brutal, Garnethill turns a wry humour on the shortcomings of its very human characters

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