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Scotland. This is the second book in the series featuring Glasgow journalist Paddy Meehan, In this latest episode, Paddy is assigned to the newspaper's 'night car', chasing police calls to see if any interesting stories are revealed, Attending an upmarket home in the Bearsden area after reports of a domestic, Paddy and her driver find the police already there, interviewing a man on the doorstep.
Paddy catches a glimpse of a woman in the house, bleeding from her face, but she indicates that she isn't in trouble so the police and Paddy leave, only to find the woman was murdered later that night.
So begins a fraught investigation for Paddy, determined to make up for letting the woman down,
I'm not usually keen on crime novels with a journalist as the main character but the Paddy Meehan series is head and shoulders above the rest, perhaps because unlike other literary journalists, she has a conscience! I find it easy to identify with Paddy and her personal and career problems, especially so through having watched the excellent TV adaptation, and am really looking forward to libraries reopening so I can get hold of the next in the series/.
Paddy Meehan's job as a journalist has turned into late nights and poor stories, And when she finds herself at the scene of an 'ordinary' domestic, she leaves the crime scene with a crispnote and a plea from the victim's welldressed husband to keep this out of the papers.
With the police not batting an eyelid and the cold getting to her, Paddy leaves the scene and thinks nothing of it, printing the story and saving herfor a rainier day.
However, it's not long before Paddy is shown that there was nothing ordinary about that domestic, The victim is now dead and has been tortured, the welldressed man was not her husband and to top it all off: the police are seeming to do everything they can to make this case disappear.
Down and out, Paddy finds herself at the root of this crime, in danger, scared and begging for answers not only for her safety but for a good story, too.


I have a very lovehate relationship with The Dead Hour, I had never read anything from Denise Mina before, but when I saw this book on my mum's bookshelf, I thought it looked just like my type.
The cover and title were gripping, it looked to be a promising thriller, However, I really struggled to get into The Dead Hour,

Understandably, this is the second in the Paddy Meehan series, and I was unaware of this until I had started reading, However, it still reads pleasantly well as a standalone, with Denise Mina introducing characters well for new readers, I didn't feel like I was missing a large chunk of Paddy's story from not reading the first book, which is great for new readers!

Despite what appeared to be an enticing plot and fleshed out characters, I really struggled to engage with Denise's writing.
The flow was a bit stale for me, and I felt like I couldn't get into The Dead Hour properly, It wasn't until my final reading session today, which totalled three hours, that I found the book unputdownable, I wasn't engrossed, necessarily, but I did find myself enjoying the story more towards the middle of the book and enjoying Paddy's feisty persona.


However, when it came to the ending, Denise did what most thriller writers do, . . wrap everything in a nice little bow and say "done!" but also add a small twist to compel you to read the next in the series.
Though I was let down by how abrupt things seemed to end, I was also notsold on Paddy's story, her character or any subplots to be that shocked by the end twist, either.


Overall, I'd say The Dead Hours was an okay read, I'm glad I read it because it offered something new as opposed to previous thrillers I have read, but I wouldn't say it was a favourite.
Damn I love these books, I adore Paddy Meehan! She is one of the best series protagonists Ive come across in years, In her era lates and her particularly conservative religious community, women dont work they marry, So heres Paddy, charging full speed ahead into the “unnatural” life of a professional, unmarried woman, Shes tough but insecure. Hotheaded, yet kind. And shes totally badass.

No plot summary for this book but suffice it to say that she gives as good as she gets, She screws up and falls down and she gets right back up again,

”The smiled at each other, these two working women, both keeping jobs from needy men, betraying nature by escaping the kitchen sink, these two women who were out in the world, active not passive, subjects not objects.
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Boom, This one didn't work as well as an audiobook as the first one in the series, it would take me a while to figure out who was narrating, whereas in the print I am sure there are visual cues, Therefore, I had a little trouble following, But I still enjoyed Paddy Meehan and the Glasgow setting, Looks like my library does not have bookin audio format, so I will have to read the text, And then the series is done, which makes me sad, sitelink blogspot. se/ So far I haven't read a Denise Mina book I didn't like, This one goes farther back with Paddy Meehan than I'd been before, but Paddy remains very much herself, The reality of the downtrodden Scotland she lives in comes through, as does the strange Catholic/Protestant tensions, Her stories are consistently good and readable, I wouldn't be surprised if I worked my way through everything she's written one of these days, This is the second book in Denise Mina's Paddy Meehan trilogy, The first one is sitelinkField of Blood, It's not essential that the books be read in order but they ideally should be, if for no other reason than to appreciate the maturation of wee Paddy who is onlyyears old in this book.


Like all of Mina's books, the story is set in Glasgow, Scotland, This series is set in the'sspecificallyhereand in the heart of Thatcherera economic malaise and resentment, Paddy is a crime reporter for a local newspaper working the night shift, driving around the city following the summons of the police radio.
The story opens with Paddy at the scene of a domestic violence call in a welltodo neighborhood that ends the next day with the victim found tortured and dead, and Paddy feeling horribly guilty about leaving the scene with a wouldbe bribe in her pocket from the apparent killer.
The following day, the victim's coworker and exboyfriend commit suicide, The police seem largely uninterested in Paddy's take on what happened, and from there grows a tale of gangsters, police corruption and a giant bag full of cocaine that one character hilariously refers to as their "comfort pillow.
" Meanwhile, things don't look good at Paddy's economically challenged newspaper, which is under new management in a laying off mood, Losing her job would be especially bad news for young Paddy, who is the only member of her large Catholic family with a job at the moment.


I like Mina's Garnethill series the best but this one has really grown on me, There's lots of detail about's Scotland which sounds like a rollicking, unsafe place and Paddy is as charming, resourceful, and fully formed as Garnethill's Maureen O'Donnell, yet totally distinct from her.
I'm a big Denise Mina fan girl and can easily put her in the company of the likes of Dennis Lehane and Jo Nesbo.
She's so smart about human nature and such a compelling story spinner, she's a pleasure to read, Ännu bättre än första boken i serien, Blodsarv, Det är huvudpersonen Paddy som gör att jag tycker så mycket om de här böckerna, En passionerad och lite annorlunda karaktär! Intressant att läsa om liv i Glasgow var det också, I really like Paddy Meehan, Paddy Meehan thought she'd be farther along in her career as an investigative journalist by now, But three years after breaking a big story, she's still on perpetual night shift, chasing police calls for a story that will promote her out of a twilight existence that makes candy bars and coffee a medical necessity.
With her father and brothers unemployed and her family perilously short of money, she needs the work, The domestic dispute at a house in a wealthy suburb seems like nothing unusual at first, The elegant blonde in the shadows bleeding from a head injury doesn't want any help and the welldressed, ingratiating man at the front door tells Paddy everything's fine and that she should leave.
And then he asks her to make sure nothing appears in the paper, slipping cash into her hand before he closes the door, The next morning, Paddy sees

the lead TV news story: the blonde woman had been tortured, beaten, and left to die, The untraceable man was neither her boyfriend nor her husband, and Paddy can't understand why the victim passed up the chance to walk through the door and live.
Far from the spoiled trophy wife Paddy assumed her to be, the victim was a prosecution lawyer with a social conscience that clashed with her privileged background.
Soon Paddy begins to make connections no one else has seen, and after she witnesses the body of a suicide being pulled from the river, she finds surprising links between the two deaths.
It's the story Paddy's dreamed of, but she'll lose all credibility if word gets out about the bribe, The police who attended the call are twisting the evidence for reasons of their own, and her boss at the newspaper is impatient with Paddy's unproven hunches.
Only Paddy cares enough to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career or kill her, .