Editions

The Field of Blood

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784709525

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Field of Blood

The first novel in the addictive Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina.

‘The most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years’ Ian Rankin

In Glasgow, a child goes missing, taken from the front garden of his home. The investigation leads the police to the doors of two young boys.

Paddy Meehan has just started work at a local newspaper where she dreams of becoming an investigative journalist. Although everyone around her believes the boys acted on their own, she is certain there is more to it and begins to ask awkward questions.

But Paddy’s investigation has repercussions she never anticipated. Shunned by those closest to her, she finds herself dangerously alone.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784709525

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • 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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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.

Denise Mina

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