by Denise Mina
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Paddy Meehan finally has all that she wanted; her own apartment in Glasgow and a job as a columnist at one of Scotland's leading newspapers. Then the police show up announcing that her former lover Terry has been found dead, naked in a ditch, shot through the head.Despite it having been months since Paddy and Terry last saw each other he has put her as his next of kin, and left her all his belongings - including a house.
Paddy doens't agree with the police's interpretation of the circumstances of Terry's death and starts looking into the facts. Soon her snooping, and the fact that she has Terry's things, she too becomes a target.
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This is the third book about Paddy Meehan. Perhaps I would have taken to this book easier had I read the previous two. A substantial part of the book is a continuation of what obviously was a major storyline in one of those books.
Denise Mina's writing receives a lot of praise and to a large extent I understand and agree. The language is fantastic and the characters multi-dimensional and interesting. But right now this was not the book for me. The plot seemed too random and my emotional connection to the characters was too weak to make me interested in their thoughts and actions.
This doesn't mean I will stop reading Denise Mina's books; I've read several of her other books and enjoyed them a lot.
Denise Mina has written:
Featuring Paddy Meehan
Field of Blood (2005)
The Dead Hour (2006)
The Last Breath (2007)
(Also published as: Slip of the Knife)
Featuring Maureen O'Donnell - The Garnethill Trilogy
Garnetthill (1998)
Exile (2000)
Resolution (2001)
Other
Sanctum (2002)
(Also published as: Deception)
