The Red Road: A Novel, by Denise Mina
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Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant new thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions. Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells.When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman who's spying on the people who put her in jail, Morrow has her hands full. And that's before she even gets to her family issues.THE RED ROAD is a thrilling new novel from a masterful writer, proving once again that "If you don't love Denise Mina, you don't love crime fiction." (Val McDermid)
The Red Road: A Novel, by Denise Mina - Amazon Sales Rank: #253868 in Books
- Brand: Mina, Denise
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .88" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
The Red Road: A Novel, by Denise Mina From Booklist *Starred Review* Prickly, unflinching DI Alex Morrow’s (Gods and Beasts, 2013) career success is the result of delivering solid evidence, definitely not from political victories. She’s single-mindedly focused on that delivery in her testimony against Michael Brown, who’s accused of smuggling arms for a Glasgow money-laundering crew just a few short years after serving a sentence for murdering his brother, Pinkie. Moments after testifying, Morrow is notified that Brown’s fingerprints have appeared at a fresh murder scene. Brown has been locked up, however, convincing Morrow that the new fingerprints are a maneuver to cast doubt on his current charges. Even so, all three cases involving Michael Brown rely on fingerprint evidence, so she’ll have to sort out which case is corrupted to nail his conviction. As Morrow works backward toward Brown’s 1997 murder arrest, Mina plays out the night of Pinkie’s murder through cops, attorneys, and a young girl named Rose, who have all left their mark on Brown’s story. Sharp, honest, and conflicted, Morrow is the kind of detective readers love, and they’ll groan for her as she detects the too-familiar taint of corruption and as her personal connections to Glasgow’s underworld create practical and emotional obstacles. Mina’s at the top of her game here, deftly unveiling the sad truths of the past and present to create a gritty must-read for fans of complex, psychological police procedurals. --Christine Tran
Review "If anyone can make you root for the murderer, it's Denise Mina, whose defiantly unsentimental novels are less concerned with personal guilt than with the social evils that create criminals and the predators who nurture them. . . [The Red Road is] as fierce a story as any Mina has written."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review"Edgar-finalist Mina's fourth novel featuring Glasgow Det. Insp. Alex Morrow (after 2013's Gods and Beasts) is perhaps her finest yet, a brilliantly crafted tale of corruption, ruined lives, and the far-reaching ripple effects of crime."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Ms. Mina's narrative is full of suspense, fresh dialogue and sharp glimpses of all sorts of characters. Most interesting of all to watch is Morrow herself."―Tom Nolan, Wall Street JournalThe plot is as compelling as it is intricate. Denise Mina grows in assurance and becomes more accomplished with every book; and this one is a cracker, beautifully worked-out, every scene serving a purpose. It demands concentration from the reader, but the story is so gripping that you are likely to hurry along, eager to learn how the plot unfolds. Eventually you arrive at a splendid abrupt and laconic conclusion, which rightly leaves some questions open. Then I suggest you may want to go back to savour the details, for this is that rare thing, a crime novel that invites, and benefits from, a second reading.―Allan Massie, The ScotsmanPRAISE FOR GODS AND BEASTS:"Mina deftly stitches [the story lines] together in time for a powerful climax...Mina again plumbs the depth of the grungy Scottish metropolis, capturing political posturing, class differences, and familial dynamics with equal aplomb... Morrow [is] fast become one of the most intriguing cops in crime fiction. Fans of smart, character-driven procedurals will want to snatch this one up."―Library JournalExtraordinary Praise for Denise Mina:"Until further notice, just assume you should buy everything Denise Mina publishes."―Entertainment Weekly"Excellent...Mina ups the stakes by taking us into the dark, beating heart of modern Glasgow, where the real deals are struck and the spoils divided."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"With subtle humor and a keen eye for the darkness that lurks behind clean, well-lighted lives, Denise Mina confirms her reputation as one of the genre's brightest stars."―George Pelecanos"[A] thoughtful look at how good people can go bad."―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review"Satisfying...thrilling....With consummate ease and flawless timing, Mina untangles the knot, leaving intact the enmeshed world she has so convincingly created."―Christian Science Monitor"Mina is adept at portraying Glasgow's blunt and often harsh nature-but also at finding sparks of humanity and humor in even the dumbest of criminals."―Adam Woog, Seattle Times"Like her fellow Scot, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mina relishes combining elements of the uncanny with crisp insights into the various diseases of the human psyche."―Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org"A piercing tale that should cement Mina's rep as one of crime fiction's finest."―People
About the Author Denise Mina is the author of Gods and Beasts, The End of the Wasp Season, 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 also writes for the popular graphic novel series Hellblazer. Mina lives in Glasgow.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Mina's mysteries are in a category all their own, brilliantly written and thought-provoking By Bookreporter When you think about it, nothing could be less logical than to put all mystery fiction under a single heading. What does a cerebral sleuth like Sherlock Holmes have in common with noir gumshoe Philip Marlowe? How does a serial-killer shocker resemble a tidy puzzle from Agatha Christie? They have murder in common, but little more.Denise Mina’s mysteries are in a category all their own (call it Gritty Scottish Urban); they push so insistently against the boundaries of the genre that I would hesitate to group them with anyone else’s work. They are brilliantly written, first of all (not a lazy sentence in sight); more important, they really take on crime: its roots, varieties and consequences. Her murderers are not necessarily villains, and her detectives rarely heroes of the conventional sort. Add a harsh setting like Glasgow, where Mina lives, and it’s difficult to call her books escapist in any sense. THE RED ROAD is, I think, even bleaker than its nine predecessors. Which is not to say it isn’t wonderful. Just don’t expect a tame thriller.This is the third of Mina’s novels about Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, a woman as complicated as her cases. Morrow isn’t well liked by her coworkers, partly because she turned in a dishonest cop (who happened to be her partner), partly because she is a woman, partly because her brother is a gangster, and partly because she refuses to compromise --- not a good quality if she wants to be promoted to an administrative post. Not to mention that motherhood (she has twins) does not really mesh with police work: “She was spread so thin that she could feel her hard-won career running through her exhausted fingers.”The “Red Road” of the title is the location of a condemned 27-story Glasgow housing project that is being stripped for demolition. On her way to a murder scene on the 11th floor, Morrow must endure a terrifying climb on a concrete staircase unshielded by walls (even if you aren’t an acrophobic like me, you will find this sequence as chilling as any homicide). But I think the vivid phrasecould refer just as well to the whole bloody trail she is following through the city’s mean streets.As always, Mina’s cast of characters runs the gamut of class --- from secret wrongdoers who masquerade as respectable people with law degrees and fine houses, to victims of poverty and abuse who become further victims when they kill. At the start, it is 1997, and we find ourselves inside the head of one Rose Wilson, a 14-year-old who is being pimped out by a lowlife named Sammy. Rose commits two murders in a few searing pages. What will become of her? Will she grow up to be a reformed citizen or a time bomb?Flash forward 15 years, to DI Morrow and a baffling case of mixed-up fingerprints. Gradually it emerges that the wrong person got put away for one of Rose’s murders, but it isn’t a bit clear who engineered the fix, or why. A couple of crooked lawyers --- one dead, the other half dead with alcohol, guilt and loneliness --- seem to have had something to do with it. The dead lawyer’s son, having unearthed his father’s criminal secrets and called in the authorities, is running for his life (Rose, now 29, is a nanny for his children). Finally, there are a number of bent and/or passively complicit policemen who helped to orchestrate the original cover-up.Whew! THE RED ROAD is more demanding than most mystery novels because it is the very opposite of formulaic. In fact, reading it is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle when you don’t have the box that shows the complete picture. It moves back and forth between time-frames, jumping from one character’s point of view to another. Sometimes it gets dizzying.But Rose Wilson and Alex Morrow kept me reading even when I felt a little lost. They are parallel figures in a way, though on opposite sides of the law, each an ambiguous mix of toughness and vulnerability.Rose is a character both scary and poignant, ruled by “fiery loyalties” and flashbacks to scenes of horrific abuse. At one point she compares herself to the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, with a similar background of sexual enslavement and a similar hunger for attention. Yet she is also a trusted part of a middle-class household, with genuine affection for the children she tends and a tortured sense of what she has done to survive.Morrow, in turn, always seems to be wrestling with the tension between heart and head, truth and falsehood, right and wrong. At the end of the book, she makes choices that are unlikely to seal her professional success. Maybe that is just as well, as she doesn’t seem cut out to be a bureaucrat: “She couldn’t stand the thought of the rest of her career being a careful, backwards tiptoe to the door, telling the right lies to the right people.”Is THE RED ROAD Morrow’s final appearance? Perhaps. So far, the author has never used a recurrent character in more than three novels: a wise policy, in my opinion (too many mystery writers stay with the same detective far too long). But even if Alex Morrow does not return, Denise Mina’s Glasgow surely will --- along with a new and intriguing protagonist for her tales of the city.Reviewed by Kathy Weissman
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Turns the pages and makes you think By Kate Vane DI Alex Morrow is an agreeably flawed character. She wears cheap suits. She gets things wrong. She loves her twins but is always working late. She wants to get on but she can't play the political game.The Morrow novels are not whodunnits. The reader is often inside the head of the criminals, we see how they think, we are challenged to consider what we would have done in their place. In The Red Road, this is particularly true of Rose, a young girl who kills her abuser and whose life is transformed - but not in the way you might expect.Because of the way the story is told, we always know more than Morrow, as she deals with a number of apparently unconnected cases. Our interest is in how the characters react to the unfolding investigations. The downside is that at times with this novel I felt I was treading water, waiting for Morrow to jump through the obligatory procedural hoops to catch up, but there is a further twist at the end.Mina's novels portray a dark, morally ambiguous world. In The Red Road, we find ourselves identifying with people who we think of as bad, and unable to trust those who are supposed to be good. It is a page-turner that asks some satisfyingly complex questions. The crimes may be solved, but the reader has to decide whether justice has been done.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Distinctive and absorbing By Stanley Crowe NOTE: Spoilers avoided.Detective-Inspector Alex Morrow is the antithesis of Jack Reacher, whose latest escapades were the subject of the most recent thriller I read (and enjoyed). She's vulnerable herself -- sister to a Glasgow mobster, mother of twin infants -- and has sympathies with people under stress, some of them capable of violence and even mayhem. And she works in Glasgow, in a police force which is (as the genre requires) less than squeaky-clean. In this well-plotted story, two fifteen- year-old murders prove disturbingly relevant to a case Morrow is working on. Mina isn't afraid to narrate from within the consciousnesses of the good and the bad in a way that humanizes both, although fans of this genre will recognize that she is selective about those characters whose consciousness she enters. One consequence of Mina's manipulation of point-of-view is that it enables her to drop the clues the reader needs in a way that doesn't make the reader's work too easy: the engagement of our psychological and sympathetic interest distracts us just enough to enable Mina to set out the information that will, by the end, be plausibly connected. What Mina makes us realize is that what we might be tempted to label"corruption" covers a multitude of different behaviors, some of which we can understand and even come close to approving. So this is far from Lee Child territory, and even has a dimension that isn't exploited by the excellent Ian Rankin. Denise Mina's novels, then, are distinctive and engaging, and so is her heroine.
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