Still Midnight

“Alex Morrow, a detective sergeant with thenStrathclyde police force, is another of Mina’s prickly heroines, the kind younlove at your own risk…She’s also the smartest cop in the shop, the only onensensitive enough to interpret the subtle vagaries of human behavior. It’s anhuge pleasure to watch her crack the ‘family myths and fables’ that bloodnrelatives instinctively adopt as protection from outsiders—and as a way ofnpreserving themselves from members of their own clan.”

“[A] stellar first in a new series…Mina, who’snas much at ease with cops as she is with the people they chase, laces thisnpotent crime thriller with colorful Scottish slang and delivers a sucker-punchnclimax.”

“Mina is adept at capturing the rhythms of lifenin Glasgow among the down-and-out. She vividly portrays the squalor of thenunderworld while depicting even her bad guys in all of their human complexity,nwhich gives her novels a rare grace.”

“A startling exploration of characters whonstubbornly refuse to stay in the boxes they've been assigned.”

“Mina is acutely sensitive to characters’ mentaln states, rendering them with a precision which blurs the line between nheroism and villainy. At the same time, her prose is both nimble and nmuscular.”

“Then book really has everything you want in a crime novel: enormous nsuspense, acerbic wit, arresting detail, and an ever-mutating plot. But nthere is improbable sweetness here too. There is a word I would never nhave used to describe Denise Mina’s work until now; but the truth is, nthis intense, fast-moving crime drama is, in the end, utterly charming.”

“Mina shakes the tired format of the thriller until all the clichés come out…Still Midnight is both unsettling, exhilarating, [and] ferociously gripping.”