The Field of Blood - Softcover

The Field Of Blood

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 329 pages. Cover worn. Ex-libraryThe first in a new series by Scotland?s princess of crime, Denise Mina. When the body of a four-year-old boy is found tortured and battered to death, it is assumed the child has been the victim of a vicious sexual predator. Instead the police are led, not to the house of an adult killer, but to the doors of two ele ven-year-old boys. Fresh from school, Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily News. Determined to be an investigative journalist, she also wan ts to be financially independent. But her colleagues ? hard-drinking chauvinists to a man ? believe a woman?s place to be in the home, and preferably in the bed room. And Paddy?s family all they want is for her to get married to her fianc, S ean, and have children of her own. Then Paddy discovers that one of the boys cha rged with the child?s murder is Sean?s cousin, Callum. Soon Callum?s name is all over the News, and her family blames Paddy. Shunned by Sean and those closest t o her, Paddy finds herself dangerously alone. Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimate the old industrial heartla nds, The Field of Blood is the first in a stunning new crime series featuring Pa ddy Meehan. Infused with Mina?s unique blend of dark humour, personal insights a nd the social injustices that pervade society, this is a novel that will grip th e reader while challenging our perceptions of childhood innocence, crime and pun ishment, right or wrong. Artikel-Nr. 3468c

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