GIRLFRIEND. WITNESS. MURDERER?

The award-winning debut crime novel by the author of The Long Drop, now in a new edition with an introduction by VAL McDERMID

When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is thrown into a difficult situation. Glasgow police view her as both a suspect and an unstable witness - and even her mother is convinced of her involvement.

Feeling betrayed by friends and family, Maureen begins to doubt her own version of events. Panic-stricken, she sets out in pursuit of the truth and soon picks up a horrifying trail of deception and suppressed scandal. Then a second body is discovered. Maureen realises that unless she gets to the killer first, her life is in danger...

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Ian Rankin

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Daily Telegraph

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Mark Billingham

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