The Dead Hour

by Denise Mina (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

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  2006

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  A blonde woman with a poodle perm standing in the doorway of the elegant villa with blood dripping from her chin. There was a story. No doubt about it . addy Meehan, Glasgow's aspiring journalist is back on the beat, trawling the streets of Glasgow for a story something to prove she can write; that she s better at her job than all her male colleagues; anything that will get her off the terrible night shift that is slowly turning her brains to mush and her insane. nd then she meets the woman with the poodle perm at the door of a wealthy suburb in the north of the city. It s just a domestic dispute, Paddy s told, although her instincts are raised when she s slipped a o50 note to keep the story out of the papers. By the next morning the woman is dead; she s been tortured first, beaten, and left to die. Paddy has found her story, but she s still got the o50; and with her father and brothers unemployed, and her upright Roman Catholic family perilously short of money, this could solve a lot of problems. day later, Paddy sees a body being pulled from the river. Another death, she's told; it's nothing to do with you; go home. But when Paddy talks to the wife of the dead man, she fin

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.25

  When Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, is called to a domestic dispute at a house in a wealthy suburb in the north of the city, it seems like just another police call. The blonde bleeding from a head injury in the shadows doesn't want any help; and the well dressed man at the front door assures Paddy that everything's fine, and that she can leave. And then he slips her a crisp GBP50 note to keep the story out of the paper. By the next morning the woman's dead. Paddy may have found the story she's dreamed about, but she'll lose all credibility if the word gets out about her bribe. The police who attended the call are twisting the evidence for reasons of their own. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career - or kill her.