Field of Blood

A Novel
by Denise Mina
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Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina.

The vicious murder of a young child provides rookie journalist...
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Published By Little, Brown and Company

Format Hardback

Number Of Pages 368

Publication Date 07/11/2005

ISBN 9780316735933

Dimensions 6 inches x 9.25 inches


"As Ms. Mina grippingly reveals the implications of these events, it's clear that she is something more than a crime writer. Like Dennis Lehane with Mystic River, she describes a close-knit, secretive community in a substantial novel that happens to be centered on a crime."—Janet Maslin, New York Times

"One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years."—Ian Rankin

"Splendidly written...Magnificently readable....Her characters breathe with an almost Dickensian life."—The Times

"Her characterizations and settings are so authentic....There are probably now as many crime writers in Scotland as criminals, but Mina may be the pick of the bunch."—Daily Telegraph

 
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