The dead hour
By: Denise Mina
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781409150671
Subjects: Paddy Meehan (Fictitious character); Women journalists; Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Description: Just as Paddy Meehan's career as a journalist begins to take off, she is faced with a bruised and beaten woman refusing help and a bribe to keep quiet about it. The next morning, the woman is found dead and Paddy has a cover story - as long as no-one finds out about the bribe. But why are the police seem reluctant to find the killer? As she investigates, Paddy is drawn into the corrupt world of drugs. Described by the Wall Street Journal as 'some kind of magnificent.'
Notes: Originally published: London: Bantam, 2006.