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When Maureen, a hard-talking, hard-drinking Glaswegian girl, finally decides she is going to end her affair with a married man, she wakes up to a big surprise: she finds him in her living room with his throat cut. Viewed by the police as a possible suspect, she sets out to prove her innocence.
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It is, of course, the stuff of nightmares. Maureen comes home late and drunk and wakes up next morning with a hangover, and her boyfriend in the next room with his throat cut, and something nasty in the cupboard under the stairs. The police are aware of her earlier mental breakdown, and it is only a touch of finesse too far on the part of whoever framed her that convinces them to look elsewhere. Maureen is not the conventional woman in danger of Gothic, though, and the effect of all of this is simply to annoy her; there are, it turns out, people on whom it is ill-advised to pick.
Denise Mina has learned many things from Chandler and one of them is to have a protagonist who is wonderfully and spectacularly rude to people who irritate her. A cast of tough Glasgow characters that includes her drug-dealer brother and the biker from the Women's Refuge help her sort out a mystery that turns, crucially, on the way society despises, and will never listen to, those who have been stigmatised as mentally ill. This is a thriller which combines the intellectual excitement of investigation with an underlying polemical anger; it is a remarkably finished debut. --Roz Kaveney
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Denise Mina has carved herself a niche as the queen of Glasgow noir and Garnethill is one of her best. (CATHOLIC HERALD)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Denise Mina to the title page. A very good copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a very good, unclipped dustjacket (light creasing and surface wear to dustjacket) All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 015588
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. The first novel by this young Scots writer, one of the strongest and best new voices in crime fiction - one review described this novel, set in "the grimmest of Glasgow's hilltop neighborhoods" as "the humor's black as coal and the action bright as a switchblade." John Creasey Award Winner for Best First Crime Novel. Mina is not yet nearly as well-known as she should be. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. Good only in a near fine dust jacket (spine somewhat cocked, usual toning to the pages and edges of textblock.). Seller Inventory # 47372
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GARNETHILL.
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ISBN 10: 0593043510
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