The Dead Hour
  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784709532
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99

The Dead Hour

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16 Apr 2019
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5 Jul 2018
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When a woman is murdered, journalist Paddy Meehan must put her reputation - and her life - on the line to crack the case


Discover the second novel in the pulse-racing Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina.

'Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence' Mark Billingham

Journalist Paddy Meehan is called to a domestic dispute in a wealthy Glasgow suburb. The woman bleeding from a head injury doesn't want any help and the well-dressed man beside her assures Paddy that everything is fine. But when she is given a £50 note to keep quiet, she becomes suspicious.

The next morning, the woman is dead. Paddy has found the story she has been waiting for, yet she will lose all credibility if word gets out about her bribe. To make matters worse, the police who attended the scene are twisting the evidence. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark truth that could make her career - or get her killed.

'Splendidly written... Magnificently readable' The Times
  • Published: 16 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784709532
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.

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Also by Denise Mina

The Second Murderer
Confidence
The Less Dead
Garnethill
The Last Breath
The Field of Blood
Exile
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Praise for The Dead Hour

Denise Mina is wonderful. It took only one book for me to become a true fan

Michael Connelly

Splendidly written... Magnificently readable

The Times

The Glasgow...in which The Dead Hour is set is uncompromisingly real and so are [the] characters. This is another very fine book from Mina

Sunday Telegraph
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