But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs twelve more hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs. Alone and vulnerable in a strange city, Maureen starts to piece together Ann's final days. Looking for answers to the mystery surrounding Ann's death, she becomes embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. In the long tradition of Scots in trouble, Maureen runs away to London. Her father is back in Glasgow, living in an area overlooking her bedroom window Leslie is sloping about like a nervous spy and then there's Angus - Maureen's old therapist - who's twice as bright as she is and making her play a dangerous game with the police. But solving Ann's murder comes as light relief for Maureen. No one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what has happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent. A month later Ann's mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames. I’m a bit of a ghoul, reveals Scottish crime writer Denise Mina, who, in her pretty summer dress and bright yellow baseball boots, certainly doesn’t look like she has a ghoulish disposition. The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. The best-selling crime writer talks family, inspiration and branching out into graphic novels.
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