![]() ![]() ![]() "Mina offers us a complex plot with a shocking ending, all told in an amazingly original voice. ![]() The danger reaches a frightening pitch."- Rocky Mountain News like its powerful predecessor, Garnethill." - New York Times Book Review "Reads like a slap in the face - and a kick in the ribs and a fist in the stomach. Because of her fathers job as an Engineer, the family followed the north sea oil boom of the seventies around Europe She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs, including working in a meat factory, as a bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. "Atmospheric, intense, and full of the disturbing flavor of inner-city lowlife." - Guardian Taking her search to London, Maureen soon encounters disturbing truths about Ann's hidden past - including a secret that has Maureen fighting for her life. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the Thames two weeks later, Maureen vows to discover what happened and to prove that Ann's husband is not to blame. ![]() Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. Denise Mina has embarked upon a series, featuring her most unlikely heroine, sexually abused and haunted by the experience, Maureen ODonnell. ![]()
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