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‘Riveting and fast-paced’ Sunday Times

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Summary

A MISSING FILM-MAKER. A STOLEN ANTIQUE. SOMEONE WILL KILL TO STOP THEM BEING FOUND...

'A cinematic thriller' The Times

'Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty' Val McDermid, author of 1989

When filmmaker, Lisa Lee goes missing, alongside a priceless Roman silver casket, there is no doubt the two are linked.

The day after her vanishing, the casket is listed for auction in Paris with a reserve price of fifty million euros.

On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, journalists Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry.

But someone doesn't want them to find the missing girl... and will do anything to stop them.

An escapist, edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestselling author of CONVICTION.

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'Riveting, fast-paced'
Sunday Times

'A joy to read'
Daily Telegraph

*A Scotsman Book of the Year*

*PRE-ORDER THE SECOND MURDERER. Journey through the shadowy underbelly of 1950s LA with iconic detective Philip Marlowe in Denise Mina's new murder mystery. Out in July 2023.*

Reviews

Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions
Ian Rankin

About the author

Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio and Three Fires. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.

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