The Dead Won't Sleep by Anna Smith

The Dead Won't Sleep by Anna Smith

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Summary

A gritty and very commercial take on the dark side of Glasgow by a Scottish tabloid journalist. The Dead Won't Sleep brings to life the Glasgow streets and characters from an author who knows the story from the inside out.

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The Dead Won't Sleep by Anna Smith

The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers. This is Glasgow in the 1990s and she's just another dead heroin addict. But Tracey Eadie was only fourteen years old and came from a children's home in Glasgow. How did she get from there to where she is now? One of Tracey's friends on the street contacts Rosie Gilmour, a tabloid journalist. She gives Rosie a tip off that's dynamite, too hot to print but impossible to ignore. Rosie has covered many dark stories in her career. Her background has plenty in common with Tracey's and her own life could have gone either way. Her investigation exposes a sordid tale of corruption and child abuse that leads from the murky streets of Glasgow to the very top of the establishment. For Rosie, it is the only story worth telling, but she soon discovers that the forces united against her will stop at nothing to make sure nobody ever gets to the truth.
'Rosie is such a believable character.. I had to read the whole thing from start to finish in one sitting' Lorraine Kelly.
Anna Smith has been a journalist for over twenty years and is a former chief reporter for the Daily Record in Glasgow. She has covered wars across the world as well as major investigations and news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to 9/11. She writes a regular newspaper column in the News of The World with a readership of more than a million in Scotland alone. The Dead Won't Sleep is the first thriller in a series featuring crime journalist Rosie Gilmour.
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ISBN 13 9780857382955
ISBN 10 0857382950
Title The Dead Won't Sleep
Author Anna Smith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Quercus Publishing
Year published 2011-05-26
Number of pages 304
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