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The dead hour

Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, accepts a bribe to keep a domestic dispute out of the paper. The next morning the woman is dead and the man is nowhere to be found. It's a story that could make Meehan's career but she has to keep the bribe a secret and deal with police officers who are twisting the evidence for reasons of their own.

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  • "Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, accepts a bribe to keep a domestic dispute out of the paper. The next morning the woman is dead and the man is nowhere to be found. It's a story that could make Meehan's career but she has to keep the bribe a secret and deal with police officers who are twisting the evidence for reasons of their own."@en
  • "The second novel in the wonderful Paddy Meehan series by Scotland's princess of crime. Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's aspiring journalist is back on the beat, trawling the streets of Glasgow for a story something to prove she can write; that she's better at her job than all her male colleagues; anything that will get her off the terrible night shift that is slowly turning her brains to mush. And then she meets the woman with the poodle perm at the door of a wealthy suburb in the north of the city. It's just a domestic dispute, Paddy's told, although her instincts are alerted when she's slipped a £50 note to keep the story out of the papers. By the next morning the woman is dead; she's been tortured, beaten, and left to die. Paddy has found her story, but she's still got the £50; and with her father and brothers unemployed, and her upright Roman Catholic family perilously short of money, this could solve a lot of problems. A day later, Paddy sees a body being pulled from the river. Another death, she's told; it's nothing to do with you; go home. But when Paddy talks to the wife of the dead man, she finds that the relationship between him and the murdered woman was closer than the police had imagined. Why have these people died? What were they trying to hide? And could this be the break Paddy's been waiting for? What follows is a deeply personal journey into the dark heart of a brutal economic recession, and the brutal bud of the drugs trade in the 1980s."
  • "After accepting a bribe to keep quite about a domestic dispute that turns into a murder, Paddy Meehan must choose between her career and the truth."
  • "The domestic dispute in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine. Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on TV: the blond woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to die. The untraceable man was neither her boyfriend nor her husband. Soon Paddy begins to make connections, and after a suicide is pulled from the river, she finds links between the two deaths. It's the story she's dreamed of, but she'll lose all credibility if word gets out about the bribe, and her boss at the newspaper is impatient with her hunches. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a brutal truth that could make her career--or kill her.--From publisher description."@en
  • "The domestic dispute in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual. The elegant blonde bleeding in the shadows doesn't want help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells investigative journalist Paddy Meehan everything's fine. Then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand. The next morning Paddy sees on TV: the blond woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to die. The untraceable man was neither her boyfriend nor her husband. Soon Paddy begins to make connections, and after a suicide is pulled from the river, she finds links between the two deaths. It's the story she's dreamed of, but she'll lose all credibility if word gets out about the bribe, and her boss at the newspaper is impatient with her hunches. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a brutal truth that could make her career--or kill her.--From publisher description."
  • "Working for the Scottish Daily News, Paddy Meehan is trawling the city for a story that will get her off the terrible night shift to which she's been consigned by her male colleagues. When she accompanies the police to a domestic disturbance call-out, a woman, face bloodied, insists that the police leave and not prosecute - while her apparent assailant hands Paddy fifty pounds to keep the story out of the papers. Then the woman is found dead the next morning. Only Paddy cares enough about what's really happened to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career - or kill her."
  • "Set in Glasgow in 1984, Mina's riveting second thriller to feature Patricia "Paddy" Meehan (after 2005's A Field of Blood) opens with the 21-year-old crime reporter for the Scottish Daily News following up a late-night disturbance complaint at a Victorian villa in the posh suburb of Bearsden. The tall, attractive man at the door assures Paddy, as he had the police, that the incident won't happen again. Behind him is a blond woman with a bloody face, Vhari Burnett, a well-respected political activist and lawyer. The man bribes Paddy, as he had the police, to keep quiet. The next day the news of Vhari's murder dismays the normally scrupulous Paddy. When a suicide is fished out of the river, Paddy begins to connect the two deaths. Meanwhile, Vhari's cokehead sister, Kate, is on the run from Vhari's killer, and Mina skillfully alternates Kate's desperate point-of-view with that of Paddy, who's determined to do the right thing and bag the story."
  • "Following up on a domestic disturbance report, reporter Paddy Mehan learns a female prosecution lawyer was tortured to death and finds connections between that murder and a sucide she witnesses being pulled from the river."@en
  • "Responding to a late-night disturbance call only to be reassured by a blonde woman that nothing is wrong, Paddy Meehan is horrified to learn the following morning that the woman, a lawyer from an upper-crust community, has been murdered."
  • "Paddy Meehan returns in Denise Mina's most powerful mystery yet, nominated for a 2007 Edgar Award When journalist Paddy Meehan investigates a domestic dispute, the well-dressed man who answers the door assures her the blonde in the shadows behind him is fine, and slips her money before he closes the door. In fact, the woman was tortured and left to die later that night, and Paddy has only days to uncover the truth before the newspaper learns of her bribe and the police close the case for reasons of their own. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal story that could make her career-or kill her, in a novel that proves why Denise Mina is "some kind of magnificent" ( Wall Street Journal ). "Brutally funny." -People "Mina again demonstrates why she is one of the best mystery writers on either side of the Atlantic." -Miami Herald "In all her insecurity, Paddy is achingly real . . . and Mina's note-perfect writing captures Paddy's voice dead-on." -Boston Globe "A gloriously visceral style. . . . Mina excels at narrative and social commentary." -Newsday."@en

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  • "Playaways"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"@pl
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Deckare, thrillers, spänning"@sv
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"

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  • "Martwa godzina"@pl
  • "The dead hour a novel"
  • "Hora de muerte"@es
  • "Die tote Stunde Thriller"
  • "Het dode uur"
  • "Suden hetki"@fi
  • "The dead hour"
  • "The dead hour"@en
  • "The dead hour : [a novel]"
  • "Vargtimmen"@sv
  • "The dead hour : a novel"@en
  • "The dead hour : a novel"
  • "The Dead Hour"@en

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