NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan writes,"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." The story takes place in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, where a young woman staying in her newly deceased mother's house

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

—Maureen Corrigan