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Overview

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.

Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away.

The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption.

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In Mina's stellar follow-up to Still Midnight, Det. Sgt. Alex Morrow, who's five months pregnant with twins, looks into the murder of Sarah Erroll, who was kicked to death in her childhood home in an affluent Glasgow suburb. The discovery of more than 600,000 euros in the house suggests robbery wasn't a motive. Detective Chief Inspector Bannerman, a much reviled colleague of Alex's, fixates on Kay Murray, who's not only a former caregiver for Sarah's recently deceased mother—and whose teenage sons are thought to fit the two killers' basic profile—but also Alex's long ago friend. Despite their history, Kay soon sees Alex—and all police—as the enemy out to railroad her sons. Delving deeper into Sarah's life, Alex connects her to Lars Anderson, a London banker in dire financial straits who recently committed suicide. The gulf between social classes and the disintegration of families both inform this memorable police procedural. 5-city author tour. (Sept.)
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Scottish crime vet Mina brings back prickly Detective Superintendent Alex Morrow for a second downbeat thriller (after Still Midnight). Now pregnant with twins, Morrow is called to a dilapidated manor on the outskirts of Glasgow where a young woman has been stomped to death. Perplexingly, an untouched fortune in cash waits hidden nearby. After learning that her childhood friend Kay recently worked in the home, Morrow grows suspicious (albeit reluctantly) of Kay's teen sons. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away in Kent, disgraced financier Lars Anderson hangs himself, leaving behind an emotionally ruined boy of his own. As Mina gradually reveals the connection between the deaths, she also explores how psychological brutality, particularly toward children, is a horrific crime of its own. VERDICT Mina exhibits her usual thoughtful flair for tough female protagonists and morally complex suspects and victims. Fans of Scottish crime fiction are probably hooked already, but introduce this author to readers of George Pelecanos and Henning Mankell. [Five-city tour.]—Annabelle Mortensen, Skokie P.L., IL
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DS Alexandra Morrow's second murder investigation—it's far too lumpy to call a case—is even more death-haunted than her first (Still Midnight,2010, etc.).

Three recent deaths, none of them suspicious, cast a long shadow over the Strathclyde Police Department. One is that of demented old Joy Erroll, whose daughter Sarah is kicked to death only days later in the home she shared with her mother. The second is the hanging of Sir Lars Anderson, an obvious suicide after the spectacular bursting of his bank's bubble. The third is the death of Alex's father, an unloved man whose passing severs the last link between Alex and her delinquent teen nephew John McGrath. Five months pregnant and chafing under the obtuse supervision of DCI Grant Bannerman, the colleague whose promotion has vaulted him ahead of her, Alex is in anything but the mood to look into the callous murder of Sarah Erroll, dead at the hands (and feet) of a pair of home invaders who somehow managed to overlook the £650,000 she had stashed away. She'd be even less enthusiastic if she knew that the investigation would bring her up against Kay Murray, the most prominent of the endless parade of cleaners and caretakers who saw Sarah's mother through her last days; Nadia, the dry-eyed party girl who explains how she showed Sarah how she could bump up her wages dramatically; and Sir Lars' son Thomas, a precocious 15-year-old whose life is immeasurably complicated by a phone call from a woman identifying herself as "Lars Anderson's other wife."

Not exactly a model of plot construction, but that's not why you read Mina, who takes you so deep inside her troubled characters that long after you turn the last page, you wonder if you'll ever get out again.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316069335
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 9/26/2011
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 59,181
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Denise Mina
Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the author of Still Midnight, Slip of the Knife, The Dead Hour, Field of Blood, Deception, and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won her the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best first crime novel. She lives in Glasgow.

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  • Posted September 21, 2011

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    By burying your past, do we resolve present issues and our future relationships?

    Detective Inspector Alex Morrow has a suicide, murder, and pregnant with twins to contend with, which is all in a day's work for this woman. She is a sharp and articulate member of the police force that never lets any detail, regardless of how small get past her even when they involve old haunts and ghosts from her own past. A dark background may plague her but Alex is not going to let any of taint her ability to solve this present day set of crimes.

    Today she is dealing with the gruesome and brutal murder of a young woman who came to a horrific end while dealing with her late mother's estate. The only clues are shoe prints with a distinctive mark, but nothing else that makes sense, including the large amounts of cash left sitting on the kitchen table. There are allot of theories and too many suspects but none with motive, intent, or knowledge of the cash sitting right under their noses.

    In another city, a man's family is dealing with his suicide and coming to terms with the complete dysfunctional behavior of the family and entire situation. The only son 15 year-old Thomas has lived under his father's shadow and grueling expectations but now it seems he has to be the man of the family and pull his mother and sister together. Yet Thomas knows a terrible secret about his father's secret life of lies. It may have nothing or everything to do with his questionable business dealings.

    No one could ever see how these two dissimilar cases could influence one another. They took place in two different locations, families with nothing in common, and two different distinctively different types of death. However, when Alex puts the pieces together and shows that the cases not only relate but also collide into each other, the explosion is heard in every corner of the country.

    This story is like a spider's web - intricate, detailed, and exquisite when you see the completed project. The reader is drawn in and this story will not let go of you until you know how all these characters are interrelated and just how close are they to knocking on Alex's door.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 31, 2011

    Highly recommended

    Denise Mina is good. She invites you into her world, enmeshes you in it and then shakes it up. You can't be nonplussed about her characters, so that the journey always leaves you wanting more. I've read her before and this doesn't disappoint.

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  • Posted October 12, 2011

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    I am so glad I found you, Denise.

    I have been a fan after the first book of hers that I read. I can't wait until the next one. This story is sad but exciting. I wonder where she comes up with these ideas. I would recommend it for those who like suspense and just an off beat read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2012

    very enjoyable read

    I really enjoyed reading this book. The characters were so well written, I felt as if I know them.

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  • Posted February 21, 2012

    Good Mystery

    The ending was a little strange.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 4, 2012

    Mediocre

    This mystery is unlike earlier Mina's earlier novels about the poor and working-class Irish immigrant community in Glasgow. There is a murder of a prostitute committed at the beginning at the book which is investigated at length by police, not Mina's usual journalist protagonist. The denouement of the crime comes as an anticlimax after a long winded and complex intertwining of several subplots which have some loose ends that are not explained satisfactorily.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2011

    Holds your interest

    This mystery is a bit different than the usual mystery so it holds your interest. Taking place in Scotland it has appeal to American readers and some education about Scottish police work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2011

    Fair

    Story is good, however writing is poor and vocabulary indicates a lack of intellegence. Author used language that reflect total lack of police interrogation policy. The repeated use of the f word showed that the author wanted shock rather that write proper words for the story and the fact that the mother would talk that way to her children. I will not buy another book by this writer

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  • Posted November 1, 2011

    Good

    Good book, but not the edge of her other work

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