Táto séria detektívok vás zavedie do drsných ulíc Glasgowu, kde sa charizmatický inšpektor Alex Morrow potýka s temnými tajomstvami mesta. Každý prípad odhaľuje zložitú sieť zločinu a ľudských tragédií, ktoré nútia hlavného hrdinu konfrontovať nielen páchateľov, ale aj vlastných démonov. Fanúšikovia napínavých procedurálnych drám a silných postáv si prídu na svoje.
Klidný nedělní večer na předměstí Glasgow. Běží televize, v troubě se peče večeře. Klid naruší stará otlučená dodávka, která prorazí dveře jednoho ospalého domu. Vyřítí se z ní skupina ozbrojených mužů v kuklách. Zajmou rodinu a požadují výkupné milion liber. Útočníci jednoho člena rodiny unesou. Na místo je přivolána vyšetřovatelka Alex Morrowová. Ale kolem případu se objevuje spousta záhad. Kdo byli ti únosci? Proč si mysleli, že v normálním domě žije bohatá rodina? Rodina zarytě mlčí. Alex se noří hlouběji do případu a odhaluje podivná tajemství.
A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.
A "thrilling" (Christian Science Monitor), "thoughtful"(New York Times Book Review), and "piercing" (People) Detective Inspector Alex Morrow novel by the author of Conviction. It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the grandfather-a life-long campaigner for social justice-is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined. "Until further notice, just assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes." --Entertainment Weekly
31st August 1997 Rose Wilson is fourteen, but looks sixteen. She has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences. Now DI Alex Morrow is a witness in the case of Michael Brown - a vicious arms dealer, more brutal and damaged than most of the criminals she meets. During the trial, while he is held in custody, Brown's fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder in the Red Road flats. It was impossible that he could have been there and it's a mystery that Morrow just can't let go. Meanwhile, a privileged Scottish lawyer sits in a castle on Mull, waiting for an assassin to kill him. He has sold out his own father, something that will bring the wrath of the powerful down upon him.
DI Alex Morrow and her team have been shadowing a woman suspected of being involved in a large drug-smuggling and money-laundering operation. Roxanna Fuentecilla recently moved from London to Glasgow in suspicious circumstances and Morrow's bosses want all the glory when she's finally arrested. But then Roxanna disappears. She's left her partner and her two children and something about the situation, and the children's evasive attitude, leads Morrow to question what's really going on. In the nearby picturesque town of Helensburgh, Iain Fraser is struggling to live with his overwhelming guilt. Under orders from the infamous Mark Barratt he's just killed a woman and now he's left with blood on his hands. Meanwhile Miss Grierson, a former scout leader who left the sleepy seaside town decades ago, has returned. Allegedly she's here to sort out her recently deceased mother's estate, but Iain knows her mother died over two years ago and suspects she has an ulterior motive.
