In the brilliant sequel to Field of Blood, reporter Paddy Meehan is riding high on the success of solving the Brian Wilcox case. Then she meets a mysterious blonde who later turns up dead.
Paddy Meehan is thrilled with her new job: working the police beat at the newspaper. Responding to a late night call, she arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde woman with blood on her mouth answers the door. The woman has already convinced the police to leave, and soon Paddy realizes how: she slips fifty dollars into Paddy’s hand and begs her to keep the incident—whatever it is—out of the press.
The next morning, Paddy sees the lead news story: The woman has been murdered. Soon after, the body of a suicide is pulled from the river. Was the blonde more than just a spoiled trophy wife? Are the two deaths related? In pursuit of answers, Paddy is drawn into a web of violence and greed.
Original material © 2006 Denise Mina Recorded by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company (Inc.). All rights reserved.
“Mina’s writing, her sense of place and social fabric and her keenly delineated characters surpass genre designation. This is more than crime fiction, and Heather O’Neill’s intelligent performance with its authentic Scot’s burr is a perfect match for it.”
DENISE MINA is the author of Deception, Field of Blood, and the award-winning Garnethill trilogy, which was lauded by critics in the U.K. and the U.S. Dubbed a “fearless” (GQ) writer of “stunning talent and accomplishment” (Publishers Weekly), she lives in Glasgow.
