The Last Breath - Brossura

Mina, Denise

Brossura

ISBN 10: 055381950X ISBN 13: 9780553819502

Casa editrice: Bantam USA, 2008

Riassunto

Paddy Meehan is home alone when there’s a knock at the door. It’s the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson’s naked body has been found in a ditch. He’s been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination.

Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she’s always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her? Although she and Terry have had an on/off affair since they first worked together, she hasn’t seen him for over a year.

She is therefore horrified to find that not only has Terry named her next of kin, but he has left her a huge Georgian house in Ayrshire and several suitcases full of notes.

What was Terry trying to tell her? As Paddy begins her investigation into his death, she realizes that if the secret he was about to expose was worth killing for, she is next in line.
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Recensione:

“Mina infuses the city with human warmth and social realism; dialogue is convincingly street-witty and Paddy is an endearing heroine.”
— The Times

“Uncompromisingly real. . . . Another fine book from Mina, and in Paddy Meehan, she has created a touching and loving heroine.”
— Sunday Telegraph

“Paddy Meehan is the most unlikely, and most realistic, investigator in recent crime fiction . . .”
— Wall Street Journal
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L'autore:

Denise Mina is an academic researcher and until recently, she taught criminology and Criminal Law. She is the author of Garnethill, for which she won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1998, Exile, Resolution and Sanctum. She lives with her partner and two young sons in Glasgow.
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• Editore: Bantam USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 055381950X
• ISBN 13: 9780553819502
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512