The Field of Blood
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A sensational murder provides the young journalist Paddy Meehan with her big professional break when she realizes that she has a personal connection to one of the suspects.Launching her own investigation, Paddy uncovers lines of deception that go deep into the past - and that could spell even more horrible crimes in the future if she doesn't get the story right.
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Paddy Meehan is a young, ambitious woman striving to become a journalist in 1981, Glasgow.
What I love about Denise Mina is that her characters are awfully human, the complexity of their flaws and strengths being the foundation of her books. It's a raw and realistic presentation of a rough, criminal scene.
I love Mina's Alex Morrow series. This one, the Paddy Meehan series is written earlier and it shows (it's not as ‘‘polished', not that I mind). Where Alex Morrow is a Detective Inspector (also in Glasgow), Paddy Meehan brings a different filter, adding more layers to the social commentary: Ambition and duty suddenly have different meanings depending whose eyes you perceive with.
The first 50 pages or so were a 2.5, the next 100 were a 3, and then the rest ramped between a 3.5 and a 4.
