The follow-up to 'Garnethill', which I must have enjoyed more than no.134 above indicates.
The plot is less personal to Maureen this time (although her father who raped and abused her as a child is back in Glasgow). She and her friend Leslie try to track down the (apparent) murder of a woman from the battered women’s hostel where they both work. She inhabits a pretty violent, gangster, druggies, and sexual predators filled world and our heroine is a bit unbelievably tough/lucky for a Glasgow girl.
You could almost call them feminist crime thrillers, although I am not sure that many feminists would have much time for Maureeen’s strident anger. So I am finding them difficult to place but nonetheless a good read.
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