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The Less Dead

By: Denise Mina
Narrated by: Katie Leung
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When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt Nikki instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.

Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone....

A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life, from the award-winning author of The Long Drop and Conviction.

©2020 Denise Mina (P)2020 Penguin Audio Crime Thrillers Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Crime Suspense
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Great book with lots of twists, narrator does well to do difference voices for characters, ending it quite abrupt but still enjoyable.

Gripping book

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I loved the story. The narrator was fantastic. My first Denise Mina and I will be reading all her back catalogue now.

Great story

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Well written with wit and sensitive observation of character. Narrator excellent. I liked Glasgow accents.

excellent narration

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Mina's books manage to have that familiar, compelling, twistiness that I crave from crime fiction while still being beautifully written and surprising.

brilliant

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Gripping and character driven despite the decent plot. Characters have depth and complexity and felt real.
I laughed out loud several times, and I'm not sure if that was the goal but there were moments that were either too real, or bleak or confronting that you had to laugh to break the tension.

Memorable

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