But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs just twelve hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs. Alone 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. Maureen's father is back in Glasgow, 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. No-one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent.īut solving Ann's murder comes as light relief. A psychiatric patient and a survivor of sexual abuse. A month later Ann's mutilated body, stitched into a mattress, is washed up on the banks of the Thames. 20 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. Maureen ODonnell is a former psychiatric patient with personal experience of surviving sexual abuse.
The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. Garnethill 2 Exile Denise Mina 3.89 3,666 ratings269 reviews Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. 0 members reading this now 1 club reading this now 0 members have read this book.
0 kommentar(er)
