I was blown away by this and now want to read everything that Denise Mina has written. FIELD OF BLOOD is fantastic – giving the reader a glimpse of Glasweigian society in the early eighties, a conflicted and appealing heroine in the shape of 18-year-old lapsed catholic and ambitious wannabe hack Paddy Meeham and an insight into how the power balance between men and women have changed in the last twenty years. This is a crime novel, but it’s a larger story society, the ways it’s changed, and the ways it’s stayed the same. Just brilliant and flawlessly written.