When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.
Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone...
A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life, from the award-winning author of The Long Drop and Conviction.
With sophisticated, ingenious plotting, this is a real read-in-one-go book. If you haven't yet discovered Denise Mina, you're in for a treat! - Good Housekeeping on Conviction
Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty -- Val McDermid Mina is the most compassionate of crime novelists... a dark and heartfelt novel -- John Williams - Mail on Sunday
More proof that Denise Mina is Britain's best living crime writer -- Charlotte Heathcote - Sunday Express
This is crime writing of the highest order -- Mark Sanderson - The Times
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About Denise Mina
Denise Mina was born in East Kilbride in 1966. Her first book, Garnethill, won the CWA Dagger for Best First Crime Novel. She has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year twice, and the MacIlvanney Prize twice. In 2017 she was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime writers of the decade.
A Glasgow cop with a nose for social injustice and the dark side of society, DS Alex Morrow is introduced in STILL MIDNIGHT by Scottish author Denise Mina, whose previous series featured investigative journalist Paddie Meehan and social worker Maureen O’Donnell. Realistic and bleak investigations with a strong footing in today’s reality are Mina’s forte in all her books.
When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption.
The Less Dead features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction
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The Less Dead was written by Denise Mina and published by Harvill Secker an imprint of Vintage Publishing
The Less Dead has 341 pages
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