Mystery - Contemporary, Tartan Noir
Escape Experience:
Experience the gritty city of 1990 Glasgow, Scotland -- its blackened, soot-covered buildings bearing mute testimony to the daily struggles of its hardboiled, resilient denizens.
Read this if you're into...
Keeping abreast of international affairs. You start your day with a cup of Starbucks coffee (caffeinated, of course), The New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal. You end your day with a glass of ruby port, CNN and CNBC. Plot:
Newspaper columnist Paddy Meehan learns that her ex-lover (also a news journalist) has just been killed. He's also left her everything in his will, including his old notebooks and photos. Then on the heels of launching an investigation into his murder, Paddy's apartment is ransacked and someone is following her every move. Is it the IRA?
Pace: Reading this is like walking in a pair of... 
Climbing shoes
-- but you're not walking: you're free-climbing up a sheer rock wall, groping for each tiny handhold and foothold, inching your way up to a summit you can't see.Cast of Characters:
- Patricia "Paddy" Meehan - A single mom and journalist known for her ranting newspaper column. Chain smoking, junk food loving (and unapologetically overweight), verbally explosive (she cusses like a fisherman with a finger caught in a hook), Paddy is an icon for the unconventional and fiercely independent woman.
- Callum Ogilvy - A 19-year-old boy just released from a nine-year jail term for murdering a child, Callum gropes his way to a life outside his prison walls.
Other authors you might like:
- Val McDermid - For more Tartan Noir, enter the world of journalist Lindsay Gordon in Report for Murder
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- Ian Rankin - For another unapologetic and hardboiled Scottish protagonist, follow the exploits of Inspector Rebus in Knots and Crosses
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- About the author - Official site; Wiki site
- About Glasgow, Scotland - Wiki site; tourism
- Careers in journalism
