The end of the wasp season
Mina, Denise2011
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When millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a lifetime of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among his family. When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. He leaves behind two deeply damaged children and a broken wife. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered in her home. The genteel community is stunned by what appears a vicious, random attack. When DS Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that behind the murder lurks a tangled web of lies. A web that will spiral through the local community, through Scotland and ultimately right back to a swinging rope hundreds of miles away. The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel, which traces the damaging consequences of one man's selfish actions in a world ravaged by recession and questioning everything it previously held sacred.
Main title:
The end of the wasp season / Denise Mina.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Orion, 2011.
Collation:
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Alex Morrow ; 2
Notes:
BCT - Book Club title, multiple copies available. StKrOLA
ISBN:
9781409100959 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92CF
LC class:
PR6063.I457
Local class:
FICMYSCAFCMF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
692065