Slip of the Knife: A Novel
by Denise Mina
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Author: Denise MinaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-13
ISBN: 031601558X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: "Hope was the assassin's accomplice."
Summary: 4 Stars
A successful Glasgow journalist for the Daily News, Paddy Meehan is the unmarried mother of a son, Pete, daughter of a strict Catholic family and overweight, pleased with the direction her life has taken of late. Paddy has few regrets, save the loss of a long relationship with fellow journalist Terry Hewitt; but when Terry's nude body is found in Glasgow, a bullet in his head, execution style, Paddy is shocked, dismayed to find herself the recipient of all of Terry's worldly goods. Recently traveling the world as a correspondent, Terry has been to the dark side, but why he should be murdered is a mystery, despite the suggestion that it is an IRA hit. Approached by a cold-eyed man who reeks of threat, Paddy's first instinct is to protect herself and her son, her second to learn the identity of the stranger and the part he plays in this eerie drama.
Clearly, Paddy Meehan has grown into a larger-than-life personality, her quirky predilections as charming and unpretentious as ever. But in her latest incarnation, Paddy's plate is full: the responsibility and blind love of motherhood; the release of baby killer Callum Ogilvy, himself only a child when imprisoned; Paddy's sister, Mary Ann's moment of reckoning with her vocation; the unfinished business of the original Paddy Meehan, who spent years paying for a crime from which he was later exonerated; a new love interest, flat-mate Dub; and the shocking murders of Terry Hewitt and his photographer friend, Kevin Hatcher.
It is the menace behind the killings that overshadows everything else, delivering violence to Paddy's doorstep, threatening the safety of her child. Wild to protect five-year-old Pete, Paddy is driven to extremes, willing to do anything to stand between her son and harm. And with her usual deftness, Mina manipulates all of the issues confronting her spunky protagonist, weaving disparate threads into a complicated web that brings Paddy closer to the edge of the acceptable than ever before. Motherhood has changed this ambitious young journalist, eliciting a vulnerability that is both unnerving and affecting. Walking straight into the lion's den, Paddy invades the male-only drinking spot of old guard IRA members, their natural hostility untempered by age.
While the police and a competing reporter look elsewhere, Paddy follows her gut instinct in search of Terry's killer, the man's cold eyes burned into her consciousness. In a surprising twist, Paddy is challenged by the past in the form of Callum Ogilvy, the press snapping at his heels. It is Callum's dilemma, in a changed environment, that brings Paddy to the precipice, weighing the future safety of her son against an assassin's determination. A fateful and shocking denouement delivers Paddy into another dimension, as irrevocable as Terry's death. Luan Gaines/ 2008.
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