The End of the Wasp Season

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems.

On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief.

As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

Winner of Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2012 (UK)

“Thoughful attention to detail take the novel to another level...Scotland has produced some seriously good crime writers; The End of the Wasp Season places Denise Mina alongside Ian Rankin and Val McDermid”

One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years - Ian Rankin

A literary West Lothian question: why do Scottish writers dominate British crime fiction? With Denise Mina at least, the answer is pure class - DAILY TELEGRAPH

Confirms Mina's place in the premier division ... atmospheric, intense and full of the disturbing flavour of inner-city lowlife - GUARDIAN

Powerful, passionate and compelling. Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence - Mark Billingham

The plot is unrolled artfully ... the writing is lucid, and the minor characters breathe with an almost Dickensian life - SUNDAY TIMES

Splendidly written ... magnificently readable - THE TIMES

Something special ... A tour de force - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Remember the name. This is a major talent heading for the top - LITERARY REVIEW

Critically acclaimed Glaswegian crime writer Denise Mina is the author of nine novels. She also writes short stories and in 2006 wrote her first play. She is a regular contributor to TV and radio. Her novels THE END OF THE WASP SEASON and GODS AND BEASTS have both won the prestigious THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD. She is the only author to ever win the award two years running.

When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems.On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief.As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.

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