Using her investigative skills, Paddy sets out to solve the case, at any cost. As Glasgow buzzes with the scandal, Paddy notices a similarity between Brian's murder and the murder of a local boy several years earlier. The only way Paddy can redeem herself in their eyes is to clear Callum's name.

Heather betrays her and sells the story to a major newspaper, making the entire Meehan clan turn on Paddy. Callum, her fiance Sean's young cousin, is implicated in Brian's murder, and when Paddy foolishly confides in her equally ambitious coworker, Heather, all hell breaks loose. A nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism career out of the free local rag she's been working at.īut when the connection Paddy had been hoping for finally comes, it only threatens her career and family. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case. Field of Blood Denise Mina 3.82 4,503 ratings426 reviews Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina. Every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. Field of Blood Denise Mina 3.82 4,500 ratings425 reviews Set in Glasgow in 1981, a time of hunger strikes, riots and unemployment that decimated the old industrial heartlands, The Field of Blood is the first in the tense Paddy Meehan series from Scotlands princess of crime, Denise Mina. Little Brian Wilcox's murder is the hottest story in Scotland. This is the explosive start of a new series by the author of the acclaimed Garnethill trilogy.

A neophyte journalist becomes intimately involved in her first assignment: a brutal murder.

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