GODS AND BEASTS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B58837
English Summary/英文概要： Corruption, politics and the underworld conspire in the new thriller from award-winning author Denise Mina.
A grandfather brutally murdered in a post office raid.
A corrupt politician fighting for his future.
A police force up for sale.
Three crimes leading to one question - who really runs Glasgow?
Recently returned to work after the birth of her twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to head the murder enquiry. The grandfather had helped the gunmen before being shot - was as it a moment of madness, a noble act of self-sacrifice, or did the old man and his killer share a dark past?
One city, three crimes and a powerful connection that runs from Glasgow’s dark criminal underworld to the international spheres of the super rich.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 充斥着腐败，政治和黑社会阴谋的这部最新惊悚小说来自获奖作者丹尼斯•米娜
<p>一位年迈的祖父被残忍地杀害在邮局内。
一位为自己的前程仕途而忙碌的腐败堕落政治家。
一位可以任意收买的警察。
三起罪案引发了一个问题 — 谁是真正在掌管格拉斯哥这座城市的当权者？
喜得双胞胎后，不久回到工作岗位上的罪案调查员亚历克斯•莫罗被指派前去巡查案件进展。在这位遇害的祖父被枪击前，曾经帮助过一个枪手 — 这是否是因为一时的疯狂举动，一种高尚的自我牺牲精神，或是这位老人和他的这个枪手都有着一个黑暗的过去？
同一个城市，三起罪案和一个强大的关系网，链接着格拉斯哥黑社会的与国际超级富豪之间的罪恶交易。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：New novel, GODS AND BEASTS: UK: Orion (pub July 2012); US: Little Brown; Finland: Like; France: Editions du Masque; Holland: Ambo; Sweden: ForumPraise for new novel, GODS AND BEASTS:
“I am beginning to believe that Denise Mina is the finest contemporary exponent of British crime fiction, and that the Glasgow Detective Sergeant Alex Morrow is becoming its most interesting copper....Mina is terrific, too, at portraying the social and political backdrops that envelop her plots.” The Times
“Mina’s writing is lithe and spare, but alert... Readers inclined to be sniffy about genre fiction would do well to read Mina. As the parallel series progress they become more than the some of the individual novels, and metamorphose into a kind of 21st century Comedie Humaine - a excoriating look at the way that we live, and die, now.” The Scotsman
"GODS AND BEASTS is vintage Mina: a complex three-ply plot involving a shooting, blackmail and corruption, all described with hard-hitting prose and psychological acuity." The Sunday Telegraph
"Denise Mina is riding high at the mo
"Denise Mina is riding high at the moment, having won the prestigious Crime Novel of the Year award for her last book, THE END OF THE WASP SEASON. It was well deserved because that novel, Mina’s ninth and the second to feature Detective Superintendent Alex Morrow, was an expert psychological deconstruction of the credit crunch, as well as a page-turning police procedural to boot. If anything, GODS AND BEASTS is even better... One of the best things about her crime novels is her natural tendency to duck out of the way of the genre’s clichés...real characters struggling with their jobs, their families and their lives, the same as anyone else... GODS AND BEASTS confirms Mina’s place at the front of the crime-writing pack." Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday
"Ostensibly a police procedural, GODS AND BEASTS has much more to it...What the elaborate and cleverly crafted plot concerns, as Morrow identifies, is not simply detection but ’being decent’. An excellent novel." Jessica Mann, Literary Review
About the Author/作者介绍： 丹尼斯•米娜( Denise Mina)，1966年出生于英国格拉斯哥，犯罪小说作家和剧作家。父亲是位工程师，因其工作原因，一家人在18年内迁居21次，辗转于巴黎、海牙、伦敦、苏格兰和卑尔根等地。米娜16岁时离开学校，从事过多种低技能的工作，像酒吧女招待、餐厅帮工和厨师、肉食品加工厂工人以及照料老人和危重病人的护工。20多岁后重返校园，在格拉斯哥大学获得法学学士学位。20世纪90年代，她一边撰写关于女罪犯精神疾病的博士论文，一边在斯特拉恩克莱德大学教授犯罪学和刑法，就在此时萌发了创作犯罪类小说的念头。
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
She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs, including working in a meat factory, as a bar maid, kitchen porter and cook.
Eventually she settled 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.
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