Deze misdaadserie duikt in de rauwe straten van Glasgow, waar de meeslepende Inspecteur Alex Morrow de duisterste geheimen van de stad ontrafelt. Elke zaak legt lagen van misdaad en menselijk leed bloot, waardoor de protagonist niet alleen de schuldigen, maar ook zijn eigen innerlijke demonen moet confronteren. Lezers zullen zich verliezen in ingewikkelde plots en het complexe personage van de hoofdinspecteur.
Ein friedvoller Sonntagabend in einem Vorort von Glasgow. Die Fernseher laufen, das Essen ist im Ofen. Da stürmt eine Gruppe bewaffneter Männer in Sturmmasken die Tür und verlangt mehrere Millionen Pfund. Als die Familie verkündet, sie hätte diese Summe überhaupt nicht, kidnappen die Angreifer den Großvater und verschwinden unerkannt in die Nacht. Detective Alex Morrow steht vor einem Rätsel. Wer waren die Männer und warum wählten sie aus gerechnet diese Familie? Doch je tiefer Alex bohrt, umso mehr dunkle Geheimnisse kommen ans Tageslicht.
A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.
A "thrilling" (Christian Science Monitor), "thoughtful"(New York Times Book Review), and "piercing" (People) Detective Inspector Alex Morrow novel by the author of Conviction. 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 robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the grandfather-a life-long campaigner for social justice-is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined. "Until further notice, just assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes." --Entertainment Weekly
31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. She has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious arms dealer, more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial, while he is held in custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile, a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull, waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father, something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him.
Alex Morrow traces a wealthy businesswoman who's vanished from her Glasgow home to a little seaside town, where a dead body in the lake is only one of many clues that all is not as peaceful as it seems.
