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Resolution

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784709501

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 355g

  • RRP: £8.99

Resolution

A FAMILY DIVIDED. A SECRET THAT COULD KILL.

‘Denise Mina is proving to be one of the finest crime writers of her generation’ Daily Express

Maureen O’Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. The psychologist who murdered her boyfriend is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star witness, and her abusive father has arrived back in Glasgow. On top of it all, she has become embroiled in someone else’s family feud.

When an elderly market stallholder dies after a brutal beating, Maureen suspects the woman’s son. She soon discovers that his health club is a front for a far less respectable establishment. As her court appearance approaches, Maureen is under threat once again, and this time she has very few protectors…

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784709501

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 355g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Denise Mina is proving to be one of the finest crime writers of her generation

    Daily Express

  • A riveting story with characters who leap from the page fully formed, wonderfully realistic dialogue and the outcome in doubt until the final pages

    Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. 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.

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