A child disappears and the police believe two boys are responsible, but rookie journalist Paddy Meehan isn't so sure...
Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio and Three Fires. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Mina produces something special every time and this book – her
finest yet – offers a memorable portrait of her touching heroine,
along with the dynamics of the workplace and, especially, the
family
*Sunday Telegraph*
Mina never fails to engage the reader, taking crime fiction into
further territory to challenge and extend our perceptions... [This
book] puts Mina into the class of the serious psychological
novelist
*Scotland on Sunday*
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