Denise Mina - Gods and Beasts - 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: Gods and Beasts
Author: Denise Mina
Read By: Moira Quirk
Copyright: 2013
Audiobook Copyright: 2013
Genre: Crime Fiction
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Series Name: Alex Morrow
Position in Series: 03
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: CD
Number: 10
Source: Library
Condition: Very Good
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Total Duration: 10:44:06
Total MP3 Size: 294.96
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Book Description
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latest sharp thriller starring Strathclyde Detective Sergeant Alex Morrow.
In the midst of the heist, elderly Brendan Lyons hands off his grandson
to an unsuspecting stranger, then assists the AK-47-toting thief in
the gunman shoots him in the back as he carries the score to the door.
Was Lyons, a well-known local activist, in on the crime from the get-go?
Meanwhile, more trouble is brewing around town. Charismatic politician
Kenny Gallagher faces allegations of an affair with a very young woman,
in a crisis of conscience, come clean about the deed. Award-winning
Scottish crime writer Mina (The End of the Wasp Season, 2011) once again
demonstrates her command of the police procedural, creating a compelling
cast of characters, from the likable to the loathsome, and deftly linking
the plots in a chilling ending.
Its the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy
Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands
his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill
bags with cash, then he carries them to the door. He opens the door
and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather
in two.Detective Superintendent Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and
finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet
upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman.
And the grandfathera life-long campaigner for social justiceis above
reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden,
sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear that no corner
of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could
ever have imagined.
Denise Mina is the finest contemporary exponent of British crime fiction,
and that the Glasgow Detective Sergeant Alex Morrow is becoming its
most interesting copper... Mina is terrific, too, at portraying the
social and political backdrops that envelop her plots.
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LITERARY REVIEWS
THE SCOTSMAN: this is vintage Mina: a complex three-ply plot involving
a shooting, blackmail and corruption, all described with hard-hitting
prose and psychological acuity.
THE TIMES For aficionados of the genre there is a great deal to admire,
not just in the elegance of the plotting... Mina's writing is lithe
and spare, but alert... Readers inclined to be sniffy about genre fiction
would do well to read Mina. As the parallel series progress they become
more than the some of the individual novels, and metamorphose into a
kind of 21st century Comedie Humaine - a excoriating look at the way
that we live, and die, now.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Denise Mina is riding high at the moment, having won
the prestigious Crime Novel of the Year award for her last book, THE
END OF THE WASP SEASON. It was well deserved because that novel, Mina's
ninth and the second to feature Detective Superintendent Alex Morrow,
was an expert psychological deconstruction of the credit crunch, as
well as a page-turning police procedural to boot.
If anything, GODS AND BEASTS is even better... One of the best things
about her crime novels is her natural tendency to duck out of the way
of the genre's cliches...real characters struggling with their jobs,
their families and their lives, the same as anyone else...
GODS AND BEASTS confirms Mina's place at the front of the crime-writing
pack.
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Ostensibly a police procedural, GODS AND BEASTS
has much more to it...What the elaborate and cleverly crafted plot concerns,
as Morrow identifies, is not simply detection but 'being decent'. An
excellent novel.
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