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Zusatztext Denise Mina's atmospheric novel is strongly characterised and deftly paced. Informationen zum Autor After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow! Paris! London! Invergordon! Bergen and Perth! Denise Mina left school early. Working in a number of dead end jobs! all of them badly! before studying at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School. Denise went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde! misusing her student grant to write her first novel. This was Garnethill! published in 1998! which won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel. She has now published 12 novels and also writes short stories! plays and graphic novels. In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame. She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad! leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction 2014. Klappentext 31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen! but looks sixteen. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by a person she thought she loved! she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death - a night everyone will remember - Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her! regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious! nasty arms dealer! more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial! while he is held in custody! Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile! a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull! waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father! something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him. A two-decade-long narrative of power, abuse and love gone horribly wrong, from Scotland's newest crime star Denise Mina. Zusammenfassung 31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death - a night everyone will remember - Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious, nasty arms dealer, more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial, while he is held in custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile, a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull, waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father, something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him. ...
