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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. Zusammenfassung 'Remember the name. This is a major talent heading for the top' LITERARY REVIEW. The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later Ann's mutilated body, stitched into a mattress, is washed up on the banks of the Thames. No-one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent. But solving Ann's murder comes as light relief. Maureen's father is back in Glasgow, Leslie is sloping about like a nervous spy, and then there's Angus, Maureen's old therapist, who's twice as bright as she is and making her play a dangerous game with the police. In the long tradition of Scots in trouble, Maureen runs away to London. Looking for answers to the mystery surrounding Ann's death, she becomes embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone in a strange city, Maureen starts to piece together Ann's final days. But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs just twelve hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs... ...
