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Working for the Scottish Daily News, Paddy Meehan is trawling the city for a story that will get her off the terrible night shift to which she's been consigned by her male colleagues. When she accompanies the police to a domestic disturbance call-out, a woman, face bloodied, insists that the police leave and not prosecute - while her apparent assailant hands Paddy fifty pounds to keep the story out of the papers. Then the woman is found dead the next morning. Only Paddy cares enough about what's really happened to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career - or kill her.
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Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Thrillers, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Paddy Meehan (Fictitious character), Women lawyers, Crimes against, Women journalists, Murder, Investigation, Women journalists, fiction, Fiction, crimePlaces
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The Dead Hour
October 18, 2006, Wheeler Publishing
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1597223425 9781597223423
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Originally published: London: Bantam, 2006.
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Paddy Meehan returns in Denise Mina's most powerful mystery yet, nominated for a 2007 Edgar AwardWhen journalist Paddy Meehan investigates a domestic dispute, the well-dressed man who answers the door assures her the blonde in the shadows behind him is fine, and slips her money before he closes the door. In fact, the woman was tortured and left to die later that night, and Paddy has only days to uncover the truth before the newspaper learns of her bribe and the police close the case for reasons of their own. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal story that could make her career-or kill her, in a novel that proves why Denise Mina is "some kind of magnificent" (Wall Street Journal)."Brutally funny." -People "Mina again demonstrates why she is one of the best mystery writers on either side of the Atlantic." -Miami Herald"In all her insecurity, Paddy is achingly real . . . and Mina's note-perfect writing captures Paddy's voice dead-on." -Boston Globe"A gloriously visceral style. . . . Mina excels at narrative and social commentary." -Newsday
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