Denise Mina
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Alex Morrow is not new to the police force--or to crime--but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has never been, inside the front door. In the confusion that ensues, one family member is shot and another kidnapped, the assailants demanding an impossible ransom. Is this the amateur...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla --- a gorgeous Spanish mother of two, in a tempestuous relationship with her boyfriend, who recently relocated to Glasgow under mysterious circumstances. She is also Morrow's prime suspect in an investigation that resembles a soap opera, filled with glamorous jetsetters and enough money to interest the highest levels of law enforcement....
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. He leaves behind two deeply damaged children and a broken wife. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow,...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
31st August 1997. Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death -- a night everyone will remember -- Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defense lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little Brian Wilcoxś murder is the hottest story in Scotland--every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case--a nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism career out of the free local rag sheś been working at. But when the connection Paddy had been hoping for finally comes, it only threatens her career and family. Callum, her...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paddy Meehan is no stranger to murder--as a reporter she lives at crime scenes--but nothing has prepared her for this visit from the police. Her former boyfriend and fellow journalist Terry Patterson has been found hooded and shot through the head. Paddy knows she will be of little help--she had not seen Terry in more than six months. So she is bewildered to learn that in his will he has left her his house and several suitcases full of notes. Drawn...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The domestic dispute in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine. Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on TV: the blond woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to die. The untraceable...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950's Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast iron alibi but police were convinced he was guilty. Determined to clear his name, Watt let it be known that he would pay for information. Step forward career criminal Peter Manuel, with compelling details only the murderer could know. Watt agreed to meet him. They spent twelve hours together, driving and drinking in Glasgow pubs and clubs....
10) Exile
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the Thames River two weeks later, Maureen vows to discover what happened and to prove that Ann's husband is not to blame. Taking her search to London, Maureen soon encounters disturbing truths about Ann's hidden past...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star witness; and her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of her sister's baby. On top of it all, Maureen - who identifies all too readily with the underdogs of this world - has become embroiled in someone else's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Maureen O'Donnell, survivor of a nightmarish childhood and mental breakdown, finds herself the prime suspect in a murder when she wakes up to find her therapist boyfriend, who she had just discovered was married, tied to a kitchen chair with his throat cut.
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elsa finds a book with strange powers and must face her tortured past.
It’s been seven years since Else visited her tiny hometown on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. After years of suffering bullying at the hands of the few other residents, she left to make a new life. But now that her mother has passed, Else has returned. And when her old tormentor Karen Little hands her the very book that sent her running all...
It’s been seven years since Else visited her tiny hometown on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. After years of suffering bullying at the hands of the few other residents, she left to make a new life. But now that her mother has passed, Else has returned. And when her old tormentor Karen Little hands her the very book that sent her running all...
14) Three fires
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted his followers toward sin. ... Mina brings a modern take to this ... historical story, drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day. In dramatizing the life and...
Author
Series
Millenium volume part 2
Publisher
DC Comics
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. Years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. Mikael hits a dead end in the case, so to help, he brings in Lisbeth Salander, a fearless pierced and tattooed punk prodigy. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing...
16) The less dead
Author
Language
English
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Description
"She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer herself up she goes in search of her birth mother. Instead...
Author
Series
Millenium volume part 3
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander...
Author
Series
Millenium volume pt. 4
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: If and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like...
19) Conviction
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
20) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.
Anna McDonald has made a terrible mistake. She has forced her blended family to vacation together. The weather is bad, her daughters are bored, and her ex-husband still insufferable. Oh, and Fin Cohen brought his latest girlfriend, too. So when news of a shocking kidnapping breaks, Anna and Fin do the responsible thing. They take off to solve the case.
Lisa Lee, a young YouTube star, has vanished...