Book description
Its a peaceful Sunday evening in suburban Glasgow. TVs are on and
dinner is in the oven. But this peace is rudely shattered when a
battered van pulls up to the door of one of the somnolent homes and
disgorges a group of armed men in balaclavas. They smash into the house
and hold the family within at gunpoint and demand millions of pounds.
Baffled, the assembled people protest that they dont have access to that
sort of money. The attackers kidnap the elderly grandfather and storm
off into the nightNow senior policewoman, Maggie Minto, has been
summoned to investigate the case. But there are so many mysteries. Who
were the men? And why did they think normal household concealed untold
riches. The family is certainly not talking. But as she starts to delve
deeper, she realises that there are dark secrets all around Denise
Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Her family moved twenty one times in
eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. She
left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in
a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. At twenty one she
passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to
research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde, teaching criminology and criminal
law in the meantime. Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a
novel, 'Garnethill' when she was supposed to be studying instead.
'Garnethill' won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for
the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by
'Exile' and 'Resolution'. She also writes comics and wrote In 2006 her
first play, 'Ida Tamson' . As well as all of this she writes short
stories published various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4,
contributes to TV and radio as a big red face at the corner of the sofa
who interjects occasionally, is writing a film adaptation of Ida Tamson
and has a number of other projects on the go.
