The Red Road
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4.0 • 25 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
Power, abuse, love gone horribly wrong - and a crime that stretches back two decades...
From the two-time THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD-winning author.
A girl who has seen more darkness than most.
A Scottish lawyer waiting to be killed.
A fingerprint discovered at a murder scene, from a man who couldn't possibly have been there.
As DI Alex Morrow investigates the death of a young businessman, she uncovers a vicious network of power and corruption that reaches back to Glasgow on the night Princess Diana died. And to a fourteen-year-old girl sat in a car with a dead body, the murder weapon still in her hand.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Edgar-finalist Mina's fourth novel featuring Glasgow Det. Insp. Alex Morrow (after 2012's Gods and Beasts) is perhaps her finest yet, a brilliantly crafted tale of corruption, ruined lives, and the far-reaching ripple effects of crime. Morrow is called to testify against Michael Brown, a recidivist offender whose prints have been found on confiscated guns. During the trial, Brown's prints turn up at a brand new murder scene. Have they been somehow planted by Brown from prison in a ruse to discredit evidence? Morrow follows a complex trail that leads back to two murders in 1997. One of the murders involved a teenage girl, Rose Wilson, who stabbed her abusive pimp to death; the other was 14-year-old Michael Brown's brutal slaying of his older brother, John "Pinkie" Brown. Wilson now works for her benefactor, elderly attorney Julius McMillan, as a nanny for McMillan's grandchildren. Meanwhile, Robert, Julius's son, has gone missing after an elaborate money-laundering scheme has turned south. Are these decades' old crimes somehow connected? Morrow thinks so, but seeing the investigation through just might cost her the career she's fought so hard to achieve.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant writing
This time the plot was so intriguing that I was (almost) tempted away from the author’s brilliant observation of everyday life and extra ordinary human behaviour.