New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.). The first novel by this young Scots writer, one of the strongest and best new voices in crime fiction - one review described this novel, set in "the grimmest of Glasgow's hilltop neighborhoods" as "the humor's black as coal and the action bright as a switchblade." John Creasey Award Winner for Best First Crime Novel. Although she is beginning to attract more attention in the US, Mina is still not yet nearly as well-known as she should be - 349 pp. ISBN: 0-786708395.