The Dead Hour

It seemed like just another domestic: a woman bleeding from a head injury behind a smart front door in one of Glasgow’s nicer suburbs. She insists she doesn’t need help, and the well-dressed man with her assures journalist Paddy Meehan that everything is fine. But Paddy is not convinced. Especially when she is given a GBP50 note to keep the story out the papers. The next morning, the woman is dead. Paddy has the story of a lifetime – but will lose everything if word gets out about the bribe. And it seems the police have their own reasons for twisting the evidence. As Paddy pursues the dark and brutal truth, it could make her career – or end her life…

Reviews of The Dead Hour

Arguably the most gripping, surprising , and satisfying thriller for many a season … THE DEAD HOUR is some kind of magnificent WALL STREET JOURNAL Denise Mina is wonderful. It took only one book for me to become a true fan Michael Connelly A riveting story, with characters who leap from the page fully formed, wonderfully realistic dialogue, and the outcome in doubt until the final pages SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Splendidly written … magnificently readable THE TIMES A masterly psychological web of people on the edge and the devils that lie beneath their apparent respectability. Engrossing GUARDIAN Powerful, passionate and compelling. Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence Mark Billingham Her characterisations and settings are so authentic…There are probably now as many crime writers in Scotland as criminals, but Mina may be the pick of the bunch DAILY TELEGRAPGH The fiercely talented Mina doesn't just tell a story. She creates a world of hard core reality that bites down on par one and refuses to let go DAILY RECORD