Garnethill

Garnethill by Mina, Denise. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780786706129.

You dont go to Garnethill for the amenities. You only go to this grimmest of Glasgows hilltop neighborhoods if it happens to be your address. At that, it helps if youre blitzed. Especially if youve spent a long day at a dead-end job and just learned that your live-in boyfriend, a therapist short on scruples, has been married for twelve years. Fuzzy-headed - the wine was red and cheap - you tumble into bed. Count yourself lucky, if you dont wake up to discover your arse of a lover in the middle of the living room, tied to one of your blue kitchen chairs with his throat slit clean through to the vertebrae. Maureen ODonnell isnt lucky. Emotionally battered but no victim, the survivor of a nightmarish childhood and, just months ago, a mental breakdown, Maureen now finds herself the prime suspect in a grisly murder case.