Mina and her present setting seem a million miles from such gruesome images.
And I really wanted to describe these scenes.’Ĭrime writer Denise Mina is talking about the starting point for her first novel, the award-winning Garnethill (1999), which she wrote when she was supposed to be working on her PhD at Strathclyde University. What made it human, what made it moving, was the detail. It was just mush but there was an eyeball lying there. With a shotgun, the air in the pellet expands so that if you shoot into the head the skull blows up. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst. (Feb.‘I n the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies.
Are these decades' old crimes somehow connected? Morrow thinks so, but seeing the investigation through just might cost her the career she's fought so hard to achieve. Meanwhile, Robert, Julius's son, has gone missing after an elaborate money-laundering scheme has turned south. Wilson now works for her benefactor, elderly attorney Julius McMillan, as a nanny for McMillan's grandchildren. One of the murders involved a teenage girl, Rose Wilson, who stabbed her abusive pimp to death the other was 14-year-old Michael Brown's brutal slaying of his older brother, John "Pinkie" Brown. Have they been somehow planted by Brown from prison in a ruse to discredit evidence? Morrow follows a complex trail that leads back to two murders in 1997. During the trial, Brown's prints turn up at a brand new murder scene. Morrow is called to testify against Michael Brown, a recidivist offender whose prints have been found on confiscated guns. Alex Morrow (after 2013's Gods and Beasts) is perhaps her finest yet, a brilliantly crafted tale of corruption, ruined lives, and the far-reaching ripple effects of crime.
Edgar-finalist Mina's fourth novel featuring Glasgow Det.
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