Blood Salt Water: An Alex Morrow Novel (alex Morrow Series, Book 5)

from BillPilgrim

DCI Alex Morrow investigates the disappearance of a woman who was being investigated for shady financial dealings. At the start of the book, a small town hoodlum recently release from prison kills an unidentified woman in a murder for hire crime. He is consumed by guilt over the killing, and we w...

from idiotgirl

As always. Very complex story as usual. A woman gone missing, involved in crimes that reach beyond Scotland. Another woman's body is found. Connected. A woman returns from America who has been gone for decades. Draws in several characters. One male character the novel follows is clearly implicate...

from DeltaQueen50

Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina is the fifth book in her Alex Morrow series. There hasn't been a further entry in this series since this book was published in 2015 which leads me to believe that the author has moved on from this sequence. There was definitely a feeling of closure in this story. T...

from brangwinn

Mina brings empathy to this mystery. The reader feels sorry for the murderer, realizing that his past continued to impact him. As always the Alex Morrow novel is complex. This one brought closure to Alex and her brother in prison.

from AJBraithwaite

Love Denise Mina's writing: her metaphors manage to be so unexpected and yet so apt.