Field of Blood, Denise Mina
Field of Blood, Denise Mina
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Field of Blood

Author: Denise Mina

Narrator: Heather O'Neill

Abridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2006

Synopsis

When a sensational child murder sets fledgling journalist Paddy Meehan in search of the scoop that could make her career, what she finds could implicate her fiancés family. As scandal looms, she finds she must connect this murder to an earlier crime in order to unravel the case.

About Denise Mina

Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. Eventually she settle in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients. At twenty one she passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde University on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, teaching criminology and criminal law in the mean time. Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a novel, Garnethill when she was supposed to be studying instead. Garnethill won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by Exile and Resolution. A fourth novel followed, a stand alone, named Sanctum in the UK and Deception in the US. As well as all of this she writes short stories published in various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4, contributes to TV and radio as a big red face at the corner of the sofa who interjects occasionally, is writing a film adaptation of Ida Tamson, and has a number of other projects on the go.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim The Enchanter on December 11, 2014

Posted to The Literary Lawyer.ca An Excellent Character novel with Format Issues 3.5 Stars This novel is an exercise is what could have been. It is a great story with an incredibly engaging protagonist. Unfortunately, questionable story formatting and unnecessary side stories lead to confusion a......more

Goodreads review by Katie on April 22, 2017

How did this book make it past an editor? I love Denise Mina, but this book is terrible. The randomly-placed chapters that cut away from the narrative to tell the story of a real-life criminal from the 60s who happens to have the same name as the protagonist slow the momentum of the book and add lit......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 16, 2011

Denise Mina is a hot new Scottish mystery writer. I was drawn to this book partly because the protagonist works in a seedy newsroom at a second-rate newspaper, where she is regularly abused by the dyspeptic employees, partly because she's new and mostly because she's a woman, and partly because this......more

Goodreads review by Nick on February 18, 2016

The more Denise Mina I read, even out of order as I did with this (#1 in the Paddy Meehan trilogy, I read #2 a couple of years ago) the more impressed I generally am. The quality of writing coming off each page, the skill with which the cast of characters and the situations in which they live and lo......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on November 29, 2013

The first book in a trilogy. Set in 1980's Glasgow, Scotland. Eighteen year old, Paddy Meehan has an entry level position at a newspaper called a "copyboy" and wants to be a investigative journalist. A child murder happens and Paddy makes a link to a previous child murder eight year prior and put he......more

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