Synopses & Reviews
The first in a new series by Scotlands princess of crime, Denise Mina.
When the body of a four-year-old boy is found tortured and battered to death, it is assumed the child has been the victim of a vicious sexual predator. Instead the police are led, not to the house of an adult killer, but to the doors of two eleven-year-old boys.
Fresh from school, Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily News. Determined to be an investigative journalist, she also wants to be financially independent. But her colleagues — hard-drinking chauvinists to a man — believe a womans place to be in the home, and preferably in the bedroom. And Paddys family too: all they want is for her to get married to her fiancé, Sean, and have children of her own. Then Paddy discovers that one of the boys charged with the childs murder is Seans cousin, Callum. Soon Callums name is all over the News, and her family blames Paddy. Shunned by Sean and those closest to her, Paddy finds herself dangerously alone.
Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimate the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in a stunning new crime series featuring Paddy Meehan. Infused with Minas unique blend of dark humour, personal insights and the social injustices that pervade society, this is a novel that will grip the reader while challenging our perceptions of childhood innocence, crime and punishment, right or wrong.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Synopsis
- Denise Mina's debut on the Little, Brown and Company list, Deception (8/04), was enthusiastically embraced by mystery lovers--it was an Editor's Pick for the Mystery Guild, a featured alternate in the Doubleday Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club and is in its third printing.- The trade paperback edition of Deception will be published in 5/05 and include a teaser chapter.- Denise Mina's fiction debut, Garnethill (Carroll & Gaf 4/99), won the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best first crime novel and Exile and Resolution, the novels that completed the Garnethill trilogy, were similarly lauded by critics in the UK and the US.
About the Author
Denise Mina has written extensively as an academic researcher on the medicalization of deviant women, and until recently she taught Criminology and Criminal Law. She is the author of
Garnethill for which she won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1998. Her other novels are
Exile,
Resolution and
Sanctum.
From the Trade Paperback edition.