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Article: The Dead Hour.(Book review)
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- November 1, 2006
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**** The Dead Hour By Denise Mina
Getting wiser.
In Mina's A Field of Blood (*** 1/2 Nov/Dec 2005), young cub reporter Paddy Mehan got involved in a grisly murder. This sequel, next in a planned five-part series, opens with Paddy, now 21 and working the night shift for the Scottish Daily News, investigating a domestic disturbance in a wealthy part of town. Struggling to help support her family during the hard times of the 1980s, Paddy accepts blood-stained money from a suspect in the case who, in turn, requests her silence. Paddy, of course, cannot remain quiet. The next day, the battered woman, a political activist and lawyer, turns up dead. ...