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The Dead Hour (Hardcover)

by Denise Mina (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 399 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (3 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593051424
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593051429
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 347,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" Mina never fails to engage the reader, taking crime fiction into further territory to challenge and extend our perceptions... Puts Mina into the class of the serious psychological novelist."
- "Scotland on Sunday
"" Scotland has found itself a new Ian Rankin."
- "The Times"
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"Praise for Denise Mina:
" One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years."
- Ian Rankin
" The Crown Princess of Crime."
- Val McDermid
" Field of Blood is more challenging than any crime novel, more engaging than any social commentary, and way more inspiring, inventive and downright chilling than any thriller."
- Manda Scott


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When Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, is called to a domestic dispute at a house in a wealthy suburb in the north of the city, it seems like just another police call. The blonde bleeding from a head injury in the shadows doesn't want any help; and the well dressed man at the front door assures Paddy that everything's fine, and that she can leave. And then he slips her a crisp GBP50 note to keep the story out of the paper. By the next morning the woman's dead. Paddy may have found the story she's dreamed about, but she'll lose all credibility if the word gets out about her bribe. The police who attended the call are twisting the evidence for reasons of their own. Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career - or kill her.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent crime novel, 16 Aug 2009
By Sid Nuncius "Sid Nuncius" (London England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dead Hour (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book enormously. It has taken me a while to get round to Denise Mina and this is the first book of hers that I have read. It certainly won't be the last.

For those unfamiliar with Mina's work, the book is set in Glasgow in 1984 and the time and place are extremely well evoked without ever being intrusive, which gives a real solidity to the book. Another of its great strengths is the believable and well-drawn characters. In particular, the main protagonist, a young, struggling woman journalist called Paddy Meehan, is very well portrayed. She is an ordinary young woman from a poor background, slightly insecure and worried about her weight. She has no spectacular character traits or flaws to make her "interesting" nor does she have a particularly Complicated Personal Life - just the normal situations one might expect her to have to deal with - and yet she is a very engaging and interesting character. I thought her a really excellent creation by Mina, and the other characters are similarly well drawn and plausible.

Meehan works the night shift, and Mina creates a fine "film noir" atmosphere throughout the book. The plot is gripping and (praise be!) both plausible and comprehensible, and the narrative is well constructed, well written and entertaining. It builds the tension very nicely and I was completely enthralled. All in all, this is one of the best crime novels - indeed one of the best novels - I have read for some time. Very warmly recommended.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I Don't See It Myself..., 8 Aug 2006
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with the reviewer of 'The Dead Hour' and the previous reviews of Denise Mina's other novels. While I agree that she uses her background in criminal law and growing up in Glasgow to great effect, neither of those facts make her a great writer. Many people liked 'Taggart' because it showed places they knew but that didn't make 'Taggart' great nor does it makes these novels great either. Mina's previous plots have consistently rushed to conclusions that often don't ring 100% true; this is once again the case in 'The Dead Hour'. Jarring notes appear as personal bugbears are run out as off-the-cuff social commentaries. The style is consistent with the rest of the crime genre in its simple delivery but it is also occasionally repetitive (count the number of times when something is described as 'buttery', a fairly apt description of Mina's style); and what about the editing?

There are errors in continuity that an editor should have spotted (for example, the villain's shirt changes colour during the final confrontation) and the writing in general shows that Mina is not trained as a writer but as a lawyer. An editor should be developing Mina as a writer, not a means of earning-revenue to Glasgwegian crime fans keen to see their favourite pub and their old school mentioned in print.

This is a good, engaging story and the novels are definitely worth reading but just because you set a novel in Glasgow and have a bit of inside knowledge about a subject doesn't make this novel as great as other reviewers seem to think. Unfortunately, I have just read all three Louise Welsh novels over a weekend, and the gaps in structure and style in Denise Mina's novels are all too clearly highlighted.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely fantastic!!, 30 Jul 2006
By Wendy (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This book is like Denise Mina's others - fantastic! Very hard to put down, wanting to see what happens in the next chapter. Takes a good few twists & the end is brilliant. Just hope there is a follow up to this.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the best thriller writers working today. The Dead Hour is an excellent installment in the series and I cannot wait for more!
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