5/24/2023 0 Comments Garnethill trilogy![]() ![]() There are other contrasts: her books are far more outspoken, often using vernacular Scottish expressions. But, while hers is also a brilliantly choreographed fiction of police pursuing criminals, the focus is much more on victims (usually vulnerable women) and their wretched lives. The obvious comparison is with Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh, whose use of specific locations in his ‘Rebus’ crime series surely inspired Mina’s. ![]() Her envisioning of working-class Glasgow can seem unremittingly grim, with its low-life pubs, derelict housing estates, ‘heroin plague’ and endemic domestic violence. ![]() Indeed, the prospect of violence appears ever-present, whether from alcoholism or the activities of gangsters. In Sanctum (2002), for example, ‘The city glowered, every dark corner and deep shadow became a moist and needy mouth waiting to swallow the careless’. In Denise Mina’s Glasgow-based crime thrillers, the city is far more than a backdrop to the characters and action rather, it’s a menacing, almost Gothic realm of threat. ![]()
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