"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Denise Mina, who has a background in health care, law, and criminology, is definitely a writer to watch. As someone with both a motive and a history of mental illness, Maureen is the most likely suspect-until a second, similar murder occurs that links the crimes to a local psychiatric hospital. But when people she knows die violently she musters her compassion, courage and humour to delve into their lives and find the truth. After a night of drinking with a friend who's a social worker, Maureen wakes up to find that Douglas has been tied to a kitchen chair in her flat with his throat slashed. Maureen O’Donnell is a former psychiatric patient with personal experience of surviving sexual abuse. The troubled but gutsy Maureen decides to dump her boyfriend, Douglas-an abusive (and married) psychologist she met while a patient at a sex-abuse clinic. Her mother is an overly dramatic alcoholic who "could scene-steal from an eclipse" her brother Liam is a bumbling drug dealer and the black sheep of the family is a sister who went to London and became a Thatcherite. Maureen O'Donnell, surely one of the most unlikely crime solvers in recent history, comes from a family so seriously dysfunctional that it deserves a television series of its own. It's a book that crackles with mordant Scottish wit and throbs with the pain of badly treated mental illness, managing to be both truly frightening and immensely exhilarating at the same time. Garnethill (the name of a bleak Glasgow suburb) won the John Creasey Memorial Award for Best First Crime Novel-the British equivalent of the Edgar.
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