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The Red Road: A Novel (Alex Morrow Book 4) Kindle Edition

by Denise Mina (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 1,343 ratings
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Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant 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)
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*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

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Edgar finalist Mina's fourth novel featuring Glasgow Detective Inspector Alex Morrow 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)"

Cathleen McCarron's wonderful native Scottish accent coupled with her storyteller's delivery makes this complex mystery come to life. Her idiomatic English is fully accessible to any ear, but listeners will need to pay attention to the time transitions to keep up with the story. Where abrupt transitions can easily be handled in print, they're a bit more difficult to keep on track in audio. McCarron uses a simple narrative voice throughout but with such verve and appropriate passion and inflection that it produces a stunning result. Her power is especially evident in strained situations like carrying on a conversation in an upper story of a demolition site, a scene in which she makes the reader feel the buffeting winds.

-- "AudioFile"

The latest offering in the Alex Morrow series takes readers on a journey from past to present through events that shaped the characters...A compelling crime procedural that keeps readers thinking long after the last page is turned.

-- "RT Book Reviews (4 stars)"

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.

-- "Wall Street Journal"

Fourteen years after Princess Diana died in a Paris automobile accident, the date of her death still casts a long shadow over the Strathclyde Police, in the fourth book featuring detective Alex Morrow...In addition to the usual indelible character studies, Mina provides the most compelling plot of Alex's four cases to date, with a new round of revelations that makes the Glasgow cops the most corrupt since Philip Marlowe looked under all those rocks in Bay City, California.

-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred 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.

-- "New York Times Book Review"

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CO7FJY4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company (February 25, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2224 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Because of her father's job as an engineer, the family followed the north sea oil boom of the seventies around Europe, moving twenty one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. Eventually she settle in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients.

At twenty one she passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde University on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, teaching criminology and criminal law in the mean time.

Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a novel, 'Garnethill' when she was supposed to be studying instead.

'Garnethill' won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by 'Exile' and 'Resolution'.

A fourth novel followed, a stand alone, named 'Sanctum' in the UK and 'Deception' in the US.

In 2005 'The Field of Blood' was published, the first of a series of five books following the career and life of journalist Paddy Meehan from the newsrooms of the early 1980s, through the momentous events of the nineteen nineties. The second in the series was published in 2006, 'The Dead Hour' and the third will follow in 2007.

She also writes comics and wrote 'Hellblazer', the John Constantine series for Vertigo, for a year, published soon as graphic novels called 'Empathy is the Enemy' and 'The Red Right Hand'. She has also written a one-off graphic novel about spree killing and property prices called 'A Sickness in the Family' (DC Comics forthcoming).

In 2006 she wrote her first play, "Ida Tamson" an adaptation of a short story which was serialised in the Evening Times over five nights. The play was part of the Oran Mor 'A Play, a Pie and a Pint' series, starred Elaine C. Smith and was, frankly, rather super.

As well as all of this she writes short stories published various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4, contributes to TV and radio as a big red face at the corner of the sofa who interjects occasionally, is writing a film adaptation of Ida Tamson and has a number of other projects on the go.

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Landart
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful dark story
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2014
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I must admit to being a fan of all Denise Mina's books. This one does not disappoint. If you like dark mystery stories you will love her writing. If you haven't read the Alex Morrow series yet I'd recommend you start with the first book in the series.
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prisrob
4.0 out of 5 stars Bewitched and Bothered
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2014
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Denise Mina is one of my favorite authors and I have many. It took me a couple of chapters to get into this book, but when I did I could not put it down. This can be a stand alone book, but it much easier to fall into the flow of the book to understand the intracacies of the family and police

DI Alex Morrow loves her job in the Glasgow CID. Her last big case ended up with her putting her ex-partner behind bars. That put a crimp in her career, but this new case may give her some momentum. She is testifying about the sale of arms to criminals in Pakistan and is brought into another investigation concerning her prisoner, Michael Brown. His fingerprints are found at a recent murder, and he was in jail at the time. This could not be, and Alex needs to figure this out. What a mess she finds herself in, and her brother becomes involved in this messy case. Alex has one year old wins, her husband is the caretaker, and it sounds like the poor man is becoming very tired of this role. Money is tight, and Alex is busy, a woman tor between her children and her job.

On the other end is the criminal group who has become the mastermind behind the on-going gun running, money laundering in this vicinity. Moving from 1997 we are given the history of some of the people involved in this group. Their real lives and loves. and it does not stop with the criminals, as you begin to suspect some legal and police minds are in this mix. This is a fast paced novel with many characters to get to know. On the whole this is a convoluted and complicated series, and , as the last page unfolds, we wonder, will DI Alex Morrow continue in her line of work?

Recommended. prisrob 03-17-14
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Blue Eyes
5.0 out of 5 stars A lawyer’s death and a convicts fingerprints lead to more deaths
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2023
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A 14 year old girl in a care home accidentally kills a boy from the the neighboring care hime, then kills her pimp. An attorney assigned to her makes the first murder be charged to the victims younger brother, George.

Years later, after his release, George is charged with a weapons violation, when his fingerprints show up at a murder site. The only problem is the murder occurred when he was incarcerated.

It is up to Alex to uncover the truth!
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Annie Athens
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019
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I agree with other readers this book wasn't up to her usual standards, not for character development or story line. My three stars is being generous. There was no mystery in this book, no sudden revelations, we as readers knew the whole story from the start. This made it boring and a race to finish the book to it's obvious conclusion.
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R. J. Ellis
4.0 out of 5 stars A Rich Read and Real Treat
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2014
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Readers who like Denise Mina's writing and her Alex Morrow character will find plenty of satsfaction in The Red Road. Challenged by the tough life of Glagow, Mina's character usually have made their lives even more challenging by accepting their bad decisions as destiny. Nevertheless Mina is able to make even her most dispicable characters understandable and often sympathetic. This time Morrow is involved with a case that leads to the discovery of a serious miscarriage of justice committed by the police-- and the victim is, of course, no innocent sweetheart. Morrow slowly unravels the truth in spite of the best efforts by those who prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. In the process she.must deal with family issues and overcome many obstacles set up by the police force she represents. Morrow takes it all on with determination and a subtle sense of humor about life's truths and ironies.
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Sarah M Sharkey
5.0 out of 5 stars Mina's writing gets better with each new novel
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2014
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This 4th novel in the Alex Morrow series was the best yet. Exciting, numerous twists and turns and psychologically compelling. The shifting from 1997 to present day made the plot all the more compelling. The end, in my opinion, leaves open the idea that Mina could continue with Alex Morrow.
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Marilyn A. Cole
5.0 out of 5 stars Denise Mina is one of the very best
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2014
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I have read all of her books and have never been disappointed. They are dark and dreary but gutsy and real. Her female characters are strong, moral, flawed and wonderful. If you like a good mystery story don't pass her up.
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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, well-constructed
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014
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l would have give it a five except I had a hard time getting into it and put it aside for a few weeks. Don't repeat my error, keep on reading and you will be richly rewarded! Every thing hangs together so well because Mina is a brilliant writer. If you are reading this on a newer Kindle, switch to the British English dictionary because some words are peculiar to English in the UK, particularly Scotland.
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Barry Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Good tight read
Reviewed in Australia on May 20, 2018
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Having read the previous DI Morrow books, I found this story an excellent continuation of the line. Some of her descriptions of the action produce emotions as if we were actually there. The politics of the police force is another important sub-plot.
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Judy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read - The Red Road
Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2014
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This book was just great. Kept you guessing with good writing style. Recommend it highly to all my mystery reading
friends.
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L. Swanson
5.0 out of 5 stars The Red Road von Denise Mina
Reviewed in Germany on December 29, 2014
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Tatsächlich, das Buch ist so gut wie neu. Sehr gut verpackt und innerhalb einer Woche erhalten. Für einen Schotte besser in der Originalsprache und nicht als Übersetzung zu lesen.
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LizzieN4
5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting -- more than just a crime novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2014
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As a crime novel, this is great -- full of mystery, suspense and some frustration, as we try to connect the threads between past event and present, between disparate but inextricably linked characters in the drama. Alex, as ever, elicits our sympathy as she struggles to reconcile her own principles and emotions with the other pressures on her.

But, at risk of being a candidate for Pseuds' Corner, I think this also works as a tragedy in the mode of the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare, with characters trgically doomed by circumstances, their experiences, their own actions and their interconnections move towards what will never be a satisfactory resolution for anyone. Denise Mina writes beautifully -- well enough to carry it off -- and was created a truly haunting (and depressing) book.
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