Mina spins the complexities in the rough music of her working-class Scots, unsparing of brutal details, but unfailingly elegant in her humanity. After Heather's murder, the reader writhes, not just because Paddy's in danger but because a moment of awful truth awaits her. At the heart of the plot is her decision pose as colleague Heather Allen when she makes dangerous inquiries, a choice that spells death for the real Heather, who's everything Paddy isn't: slim blonde whistle bait-and ambitious enough to steal a story from Paddy. Paddy, who shares a nickname with a career criminal wrongfully imprisoned for murder, can't tolerate injustice. Scots are deemed legally responsible at eight, but Paddy sees Callum as another victim. And she wants his help interviewing his 10-year-old cousin, Callum, who's been charged with murdering a toddler. Denise Mina Books in Order (21 Book Series) Garnethill Exile Resolution Sanctum/Deception The Field Of Blood Empathy is the Enemy The Dead Hour The Red. 'I knew I was lying when I made my first communion,' she confesses to fiancé Sean Ogilvy the night she delivers other shockers.

, has struggled with issues of goodness since childhood. OK, so the newspaper office at the centre of the drama isnt the Guardian but the. Patricia 'Paddy' Meehan, a copygirl at Glasgow's Daily News Well yes, according to The Field of Blood (BBC1), David Kanes two-part adaptation of Denise Minas novel. Beyond creating sweaty physical tension, the brilliant Mina may have invented a subgenre: moral suspense. The Field of Blood By: Denise Mina Format: Paperback / softback Around 7-19 June Author Biography: After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Denise Mina. If this novel were a movie, filmgoers would tag it the one to beat for the Oscars.

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