Paddy Meehan returns in Denise Mina's most powerful mystery yet, nominated for a 2007 Edgar Award
When journalist Paddy Meehan investigates a domestic dispute, the well-dressed man who answers the door assures her the blonde in the shadows behind him is fine, and slips her money before he closes the door. In fact, the woman was tortured and left to die later that night, and Paddy has only days to uncover the truth before the newspaper learns of her bribe and the police close the case for reasons of their own. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal story that could make her career-or kill her, in a novel that proves why Denise Mina is "some kind of magnificent" (Wall Street Journal).
"Brutally funny." -People
"Mina again demonstrates why she is one of the best mystery writers on either side of the Atlantic." -Miami Herald
"In all her insecurity, Paddy is achingly real . . . and Mina's note-perfect writing captures Paddy's voice dead-on." -Boston Globe
"A gloriously visceral style. . . . Mina excels at narrative and social commentary." -Newsday
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Review:
"Mina never fails to engage the reader, taking crime fiction into further territory to challenge and extend our perceptions...Puts Mina into the class of the serious psychological novelist."
-"Scotland on Sunday
""Scotland has found itself a new Ian Rankin."
-"The Times"
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"Praise for Denise Mina:
"One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years."
-Ian Rankin
"The Crown Princess of Crime."
-Val McDermid
"Field of Blood is more challenging than any crime novel, more engaging than any social commentary, and way more inspiring, inventive and downright chilling than any thriller."
-Manda Scott
" Mina never fails to engage the reader, taking crime fiction into further territory to challenge and extend our perceptions... Puts Mina into the class of the serious psychological novelist."
- "Scotland on Sunday
"" Scotland has found itself a new Ian Rankin."
- "The Times"
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"Praise for Denise Mina:
" One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years."
- Ian Rankin
" The Crown Princess of Crime."
- Val McDermid
" Field of Blood is more challenging than any crime novel, more engaging than any social commentary, and way more inspiring, inventive and downright chilling than any thriller."
- Manda Scott
From the Publisher:
The second novel in the wonderful Paddy Meehan series by Scotland’s princess of crime, Denise Mina.
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- PublisherBack Bay Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0316003530
- ISBN 13 9780316003537
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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