Paddy Meehan Field of Blood, Book 1, (Hardcover)

from safetygirl

18-year-old Paddy Meehan is a copyboy for the Scottish Daily News, but she dreams of becoming a journalist. When a baby is abducted and murdered, Paddy doesn't think the police are on the right track so she starts investigating on her own, not knowing what kind of danger she's in. I loved Mina's ...

from watershrew17

The first book about Paddy Meehan. Brilliant description of Glasgow early 1980's. Should be read in English otherwise you will miss out on the Glaswegian dialect.

from markatread

A small boy, 3 years old, is killed in a very gruesome way and almost immediately two boys, age 10 and 11, are arrested for the murder. Paddy Meehan is 18 years old and a copyboy for the newspaper in Glasgow, Scotland. She wants to be a journalist, something that very few women were in 1981 in Gl...

from Caryn.Rose

I literally had to put this book on hold for three weeks because I was 80% done and thought I could finish it in one night, and then realized the story was still going to continue and possibly end badly and didn't want to read it before going to bed because I'd have bad dreams. Today I finally ha...

from allthesedarnbooks

This is the first book in Mina's series starring Paddy Meehan. Paddy is a great, if not always likable character, and her struggles to balance her ambitions as a reporter with her family's demands and Catholic morals are fascinating. The prose is dark and lush. The mystery itself is okay, althoug...