Book description
When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh
part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a
truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with twins, DS Alex Morrow is
called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to
Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas
Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school
to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the
loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide.
Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a
state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their
initial reaction is not of grief, but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly
unravels the connections between the two cases, she must also deal with
the death of her own father and her brother's continuing criminal
activities. Trying her hardest to disentangle herself from her family's
disreputable history, she faces the challenge of an uninspired police
force who have zero sympathy with Sarah Erroll, a middle-class victim
who it appears was acting as an high class escort. Can Morrow solve the
mystery of a cold-blooded murder without support? In THE END OF THE WASP
SEASON she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives
collide with potentially disastrous consequences. Denise Mina was born
in Glasgow in 1966. Because of her father's job as an engineer, her
family moved twenty-one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague,
London, Scotland and Bergen. After leaving school at sixteen and a run
of poorly paid jobs, she went on to study Law at Glasgow University and
researched a PhD thesis at Strathclyde. Misusing her grant, she stayed
at home and wrote her first novel, Garnethill, which was published in
1998 and won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for best
first crime novel. Since 1998 she has written seven further novels,
including most recently, Still Midnight. She also writes comics and in
2006 wrote her first play, 'Ida Tamson'. As well as all of this she
writes short stories and is a regular contributor to TV and radio.
