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Zusatztext Denise Mina is one of Scotland´s most impressive crime writers. This dark! angry novel doesn´t offer easy thrills or the intellectual diversion of a whodunnit. Instead it focusses on its deeply flawed characters! their motivations and the world they live in ... undeniably powerful Informationen zum Autor Denise Mina is a critically acclaimed Glaswegian crime writer. Her novels include The End of the Wasp Season and Gods and Beasts ! both of which won the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award in consecutive years. Denise also writes short stories and in 2006 wrote her first play. She is a regular contributor to TV and radio. Find out more at www.denisemina.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @DameDeniseMina Klappentext New paperback from the Scottish crime writer! featuring series character DS Alex Morrow; it links the death of a young woman in Glasgow with the suicide of a banker in Kent! as the pregnant Morrow investigates. 'The plot is unrolled artfully... the writing is lucid! and the minor characters breathe with an almost Dickensian life' "Sunday Times" Zusammenfassung A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow! the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins! DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town! Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead! yet their initial reaction is not that of grief! but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases! she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences. ...
