Alex Morrow Series
This crime series plunges into the gritty streets of Glasgow, where the compelling Detective Inspector Alex Morrow unravels the city's darkest secrets. Each investigation peels back layers of crime and human tragedy, forcing the protagonist to confront not only culprits but his own inner demons. Readers will find themselves engrossed in intricate plots and the complex character of the lead investigator.
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The End of the Wasp Season
- 404 pages
- 15 hours of reading
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away. The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption.
Gods and Beasts
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A "thrilling" (Christian Science Monitor), "thoughtful"(New York Times Book Review), and "piercing" (People) Detective Inspector Alex Morrow novel by the author of Conviction. It's 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 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. DS 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 grandfather-a life-long campaigner for social justice-is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined. "Until further notice, just assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes." --Entertainment Weekly
31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. She has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious arms dealer, more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial, while he is held in custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile, a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull, waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father, something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him.
Alex Morrow traces a wealthy businesswoman who's vanished from her Glasgow home to a little seaside town, where a dead body in the lake is only one of many clues that all is not as peaceful as it seems.