Book Review

The Dead Hour (2006)

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Jul 10, 2006; Writer: Denise Mina; Genres: Fiction, Mystery and Thriller; Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Glasgow crime reporter Paddy Meehan inadvertently takes a bribe to keep a domestic dispute she's seen out of the papers, only to learn the next morning the woman involved has been murdered.

Local Color
Even in Glasgow, a comedy open-mic night is ''like making vegans watch a seal cull.''

Bodily Trauma
A thug gets a three-inch heel through the eye.

Lowdown
In her sequel to Field of Blood, Mina's clearly enamored of chubby, blasphemous, quick-witted Paddy — and rightly so.

Originally posted Jul 07, 2006 Published in issue #886 Jul 14, 2006 Order article reprints

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