The less dead
β Scribed by Denise Mina
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company; Mulholland Books/Little
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Edition
- First North American edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Glasgow (Scotland);Scotland
- ISBN
- 0316537381
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β¦ Synopsis
In this shocking thriller from the "superbly talented" Denise Mina (Hank Philippi Ryan), Margot finally learns her birth mother's identity, only to discover that the killer is still at large -- and sending threatening letters.
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Margot is having a thirtysomething crisis: She's burning out at work, a public health practice; she's just left her longtime boyfriend after discovering he was cheating; and her mother recently died. The only silver lining to her mother's death is that Margot, who was adopted, can finally go looking for her birth mother.
What she finds is an incomplete family -- the only person left is Nikki, her mother's older sister. Aunt Nikki brings upsetting news: Margot's mother is dead, murdered many years ago, one of a series of sex workers killed in Glasgow.
The killer -- or killers? -- has never been found, Aunt Nikki claims. They're still at large . . . and sending her letters, gloating letters that...
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