However, being a glutton for punishment, I dove into Exile with the hope of improvement – after all, so many people seem to enjoy Denise Mina as an author and I was hoping to find a spark to create such a view within myself. In fact, if I had not brought the trilogy as a collection, I would not have been continuing. I was interested in seeing where things went, but it wasn’t an intense desire. Upon finishing Garnethill, I wasn’t overly crazy about continuing this trilogy. Violence hovers in the most familiar precincts of Maureen's Garnethill, and Denise Mina once again proves herself to be an award-winning writer. Meanwhile, she's embroiled in another hard-bitten family's feud when Ella McGee, an elderly stallholder at the flea market where Maureen sells illegally imported cigarettes, decides to take her son to small-claims court over unpaid wages and then turns up beaten brutally in Albert Hospital. Maureen's abusive father has shown up again in Glasgow and Angus Farrell, the psychologist who so gruesomely murdered her therapist-boyfriend, is going on trial-with Maureen as the star witness. Blending suspense, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Denise Mina's Resolution completes her compelling Garnethill trilogy (which includes two New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year) that Val McDermid, author of A Place of Execution, calls 'head and shoulders above much of contemporary crime fiction.' In her gripping new crime novel, Mina returns once more to the seamier precincts of Glasgow and the untidy world of the hapless but resolute Maureen O'Donnell.

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