Exile - Hardcover

Mina, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786708387 ISBN 13: 9780786708383

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001

Synopsis

When one of her clients at the local Glasgow women's shelter is found dead in the Thames, Maureen O'Donnell heads south to London to investigate Ann's brutal death and races against time to reconstruct Ann's final days in order to save herself from a similar fate. By the author of Garnethill.

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From the Inside Flap:

The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later Ann's mutilated body, stitched into a mattress, is washed up on the banks of the Thames. No one, except for Maureen and her best friend, Leslie, seems to care about what has happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent.

In the long tradition of Scots in trouble, Maureen runs away to London. Looking for answers to the mystery surrounding Ann's death, she becomes embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone in a strange city, Maureen starts to piece together Ann's final days. But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs just twelve hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs.

From the Back Cover:

"Confirms Mina’s place in the premier division… atmospheric, intense and full of the disturbing flavour of inner-city lowlife." – Guardian

"Mina writes with an energy and brio that lifts this novel head and shoulders above the superficial gangster glamour of much contemporary British crime fiction." – The Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786708387
• ISBN 13: 9780786708383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368