Book description
In Glasgow, a child goes missing, taken from the front garden of his
home - and the investigation leads the police to the doors of two young
boys. Paddy Meehan has just started her new job working for a local
newspaper, where she dreams of becoming an investigative journalist. She
starts looking into the case of the missing child but, unlike everyone
else, does not believe the boys acted on their own. Convinced there is
more to it than this, she begins to ask some very awkward questions. But
Paddy's investigation has repercussions she never anticipated. Shunned
by those closest to her, she finds herself dangerously alone... 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.
