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Set in Glasgow in 1981, The Field of Blood is the first in a compelling new crime series featuring Paddy Meehan. Infused with Denise Mina's unique blend of dark humour, personal insights and the social injustices that pervade our society, it is a terrifying novel that will challenge readers' perceptions of right and wrong.

It is Glasgow in 1990. Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. He's been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she's always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her? Although she and Terry have had an on/off affair since they first worked together in the 1980s, she hasn't seen him for over a year. She is therefore horrified to find that not only has Terry named her next of kin, but he has left her a huge Georgian house in Ayrshire and several suitcases full of notes. What was Terry trying to tell her? As Paddy begins her investigation into his death, she realises that if the secret he was about to expose was worth killing for, she is next in line...

After his forensic psychiatrist wife is convicted of murder, her husband Harriot attempts to unearth the truth. As he works his way through his wife’s papers and documents he makes a discovery that exposes his family’s apparent respectability as complete sham.