Alex Morrow (5 books in series)
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review 1: This is a really interesting novel, more than the usual mystery. It is never in doubt who is guilty, but the police process of discovery provides for an engaging police procedural, as good mysteries do. Several sub-plots are well developed, relating to family relationships at var...
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review 1: A home invasion ending in a kidnapping of an elderly man. Three amateurs do this job and actually get the wrong man wrong man, a young woman is shot in the hand and all hell breaks loose as the thee men haul the old man out of the house. These men want a large ransom and the p...
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review 1: The End of Wasp Season is part police procedural and part psychological thriller. When shady business man, Lars Anderson, commits suicide by hanging , his death sets several events in motion including a brutal homicide. Alex Morrow is called upon to investigate and discovers a co...
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review 1: This is the first Denise Mina novel I've read. Set in Glasgow, Scotland, "The Red Road" features DI Alex (Alexandra) Morrow. It's part of what's been nicknamed the "Gritty Scottish Urban" mystery genre--think Ian Rankin, among others. Morrow becomes involved in several cases t...
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review 1: I will NOT be reading other books by this author. Her only point seems to be that the world is going to hell in a hand basket and people trying to do good are spitting on a fire. Well, thank you very much, I see enough of that every day, I don't need a fictional depiction of th...