Denise Mina
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first book in the acclaimed Alex Morrow series of crime novels set in Glasgow, Scotland, from the author of national bestseller Conviction.
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...
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 3
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
Alex Morrow novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Alex Morrow uncovers clues in the savage murder of a young woman in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow that may ultimately be linked to the suicide of a notorious millionaire banker a hundred miles away.
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
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 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to testify against a violent arms dealer, police detective Alex Morrow finds her efforts challenged by a privileged Scottish lawyer's money laundering scheme and a vengeful woman prisoner.
7) Conviction
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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.
8) Three fires
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel from a writer at the height of her powers"-- Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
11) Rizzio
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical...
12) Resolution
Author
Series
Maureen O'Donnell novels volume 3
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
13) Exile
Author
Series
Maureen O'Donnell novels volume 2
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
14) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation with their blended family, Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen take off to try to solve the case of a shocking kidnapping.
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned...
15) The less dead
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Navigating burnout, an unfaithful ex and a relative's recent death, Margo reaches out to her birth family before discovering that her biological mother was murdered years earlier by a killer who begins sending her threatening letters.
20) THE GOOD LIAR
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Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
BLOOD WASHES OFF, BUT GUILT STAINS…
In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice.
A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s...
In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice.
A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s...