Quotes
“Alex Morrow, a detective sergeant with the
Strathclyde police force, is another of Mina’s prickly heroines, the kind you
love at your own risk…She’s also the smartest cop in the shop, the only one
sensitive enough to interpret the subtle vagaries of human behavior. It’s a
huge pleasure to watch her crack the ‘family myths and fables’ that blood
relatives instinctively adopt as protection from outsiders—and as a way of
preserving themselves from members of their own clan.” New York Times
“[A] stellar first in a new series…Mina, who’s
as much at ease with cops as she is with the people they chase, laces this
potent crime thriller with colorful Scottish slang and delivers a sucker-punch
climax.” Publishers Weekly
“Mina is adept at capturing the rhythms of life
in Glasgow among the down-and-out. She vividly portrays the squalor of the
underworld while depicting even her bad guys in all of their human complexity,
which gives her novels a rare grace.” Library Journal
“A startling exploration of characters who
stubbornly refuse to stay in the boxes they've been assigned.” Kirkus Reviews
“Mina is acutely sensitive to characters’ mental
states, rendering them with a precision which blurs the line between
heroism and villainy. At the same time, her prose is both nimble and
muscular.” The Guardian
“The
book really has everything you want in a crime novel: enormous
suspense, acerbic wit, arresting detail, and an ever-mutating plot. But
there is improbable sweetness here too. There is a word I would never
have used to describe Denise Mina’s work until now; but the truth is,
this intense, fast-moving crime drama is, in the end, utterly charming.” Barnesandnoble.com Review
“Mina shakes the tired format of the thriller until all the clichés come out…Still Midnight is both unsettling, exhilarating, [and] ferociously gripping.” The Independent