Garnethill by Denise Mina
Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and a survivor of sexual abuse, she is stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of her friends, and the sweet balm of whisky. She is about to put an end to her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat cut. iewed in turn by the police as a suspect -- aided and abetted by her drug-dealing brother Liam - and as an unco-operative, unstable witness, even Maureen's alcoholic mother and self-serving sisters are convinced of her involvement. Worse still, the police won't tell her anything about Douglas's death, or what the killer left behind in her hall cupboard. eeling betrayed by friends and family, Maureen begins to doubt her own version of events. Panic-stricken, she sets out to retrace Douglas's last, desperate days and picks up a horrifying trail of rape, deception and suppressed scandal at a local psychiatric hospital where she had been an inmate. But the patients won't talk and the staff are afraid, and when a second brutalized corpse is dis
As an academic researcher, Denise Mina has written extensively on the medicalization of deviant women, and until recently she taught criminology and Criminal Law. She is the author of Garnethill, for which she won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1998, Exile, Resolution and Sanctum. She lives with her partner and young son in Glasgow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553506945 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553506943 |
| Title | Garnethill |
| Author | Denise Mina |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA John Creasey Memorial Award 1998 |
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