She knows she will eventually be a real journalist like all the men around her who think of her as a fat coffee-fetcher. Paddy has grown up on the wrong side of the Glasgow tracks, but she is determined to prove her worth as a true newswoman. Even the rampant religious bigotry she has to endure as a Roman Catholic won't keep her away from a vicious murder she must investigate and solve. Denise Mina does her Paddy Meehan proud in a highly descriptive tale of questionable police practices in a country where women are still considered second-class citizens.