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    The Last Breath

    Denise Mina

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    Everything is going well for journalist Paddy Meehan. She finally has a flat of her own, and the job she always wanted, as one of Scotland's leading newspaper columnists.

    Then the police knock at her door with the news that her former lover, Terry, has been found in a ditch, shot through the head. Even though they'd split up months before, Paddy is down as the next of kin, and has been left everything, including a box of notebooks...

    As Paddy tries to uncover what it was Terry wanted her to discover, it soon becomes clear that he was about to expose a secret. A secret worth killing for. And Paddy is next in line...

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    Praise for The Last Breath

    • Denise Mina is wonderful. It took only one book for me to become a true fan - Michael ConnellyOne of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years - Ian RankinSomething special ... a tour de force - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTRemember the name. This is a major talent heading for the top - LITERARY REVIEW

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    Denise Mina

    Denise Mina

    After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Invergordon, Bergen and Perth, Denise Mina left school early. Working in a number of dead end jobs, all of them badly, before studying at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School.

    Denise went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde, misusing her student grant to write her first novel. This was Garnethill, published in 1998, which won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel.

    She has now published 12 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels.

    In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame.

    She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad, leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction 2014.

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