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The End of the Wasp Season
A Novel
Book Summary
Detective Inspector Alex Morrow uncovers clues in the savage murder of a young woman in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow that may ultimately be linked to the suicide of a notorious millionaire banker 100 miles away.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Suicide victims,
- Policewomen,
- Scotland,
- Mystery fiction,
- Investigation,
- Murder,
- Fiction
NPR stories about The End of the Wasp Season
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The decrepit ancestral pile where murder is committed at the beginning of Denise Mina's psychological thriller, The End of the Wasp Season, could have been lifted out of the Gothic tales that Conan Doyle savored. Here's the scene: It's early morning in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow. A young woman who's sleeping alone in her newly deceased mother's house suddenly wakes up because the kitchen radio, which she's left on during the night, has been silenced. Next, she hears something... more
—Maureen Corrigan
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