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Zusatztext Denise Mina is the finest contemporary exponent of British crime fiction 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 Acclaimed two-time winner of the THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD! Denise Mina weaves a gripping tale of greed! power and misconception. Acclaimed two-time winner of the THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD, Denise Mina weaves a gripping tale of greed, power and misconception. Zusammenfassung *** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2016 *** Salt water lifts blood. Only salt water. Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced anyway. Found bludgeoned and dumped in the water! she now haunts Iain Fraser! the man who put her there. She trusted him and now that misplaced trust is gnawing through Iain's chest. He thinks it will kill him. Nearby Helensburgh is an idyllic Victorian town. One-time home to a quarter of all the millionaires in Britain! it is quaint! sleepy and chocolate-box pretty. But the real town is shot through with deception! lies and vested interests. As tensions rise and the police seek a killer! the conflicts that lurk beneath Helensburgh's calm waters threaten to explode. All Iain Fraser has to do is keep on lying. ...
