The Last Breath

Paddy Meehan's former boyfriend was killed before he could expose a dark secret, and Paddy is determined to find the culpritRead the third novel in the Paddy Meehan series, from award-winning author Denise Mina.'One of the most original voices in crime fiction' Daily MailPaddy Meehan finally has it all- a flat of her own in Glasgow and a job as one of Scotland's leading newspaper columnists. Then the police knock on her door. Her former lover Terry has been found in a ditch, shot through the head.Even though they had split up months before, Terry has left her everything, including a house in Ayrshire and boxes of notebooks. As Paddy digs deeper into his murder, it soon becomes clear that the secret he was about to expose is worth killing for. And that she is next in line.

“Mina infuses the city with human warmth and social realism; dialogue is convincingly street-witty and Paddy is an endearing heroine”

The Times
Uncompromisingly real... Another fine book from Mina, and in Paddy Meehan, she has created a touching and loving heroine Sunday Telegraph

Denise Mina is the bestselling author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio, Three Fires and The Second Murderer, a Philip Marlowe novel for the Chandler estate. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice, the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year twice, the Gordon Burn Prize and was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Denise also writes graphic novels and plays, and presents television and radio programmes. She studied law and forensic examination at Glasgow University and taught criminology and criminal law part-time at Strathclyde University. Denise lives and works in Glasgow. The Good Liar is her twentieth novel.

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