Pre-Owned Still Midnight (Hardcover) by Denise Mina

from bhowell

Denis Mina's books just get better and better. This is her 7th novel and takes place in gritty present day Glasgow. DS Alex Morrow investigates a home invasion. An elderly man is taken hostage but why do the kidnappers think that this ordinary middle class family can pay a ransom of 2 million pou...

from austcrimefiction

According to the famous names quoted on the back of STILL MIDNIGHT, Denise Mina is the crown princess of crime, past winner of the John Creasey Memorial Prize for her first crime novel GARNETHILL. She certainly is a writer that deserves a wide fan base, as she is undoubtedly one of the great writ...

from fordbarbara

A new character, police inspector Alex Morrow. She is paranoid, unhappy, snappish and terrified that her upbringing will catch up with her. In other words, a pretty ordinary character in a police procedural, but in Denise Mina's capable hands the story develops nicely and I had no problem feeling...

from maneekuhi

By page 190 of this 356 page book, I was ready to quit on it. I didn't like the new heroine, Det Alex Morrow, nor her anger at everyone, her persistent competing with colleagues for credit, her being underappreciated, her mysterious past, a plodding plot, focus on the baddies, lack of tension, no...

from AJBraithwaite

An intriguing police procedural story, which heads off in interesting and unexpected directions. I warmed to the spiky main character and enjoyed the glimpses of Glasgow in the language and the descriptions. There were a few moments where I wasn't entirely clear what had just happened, where a bi...