Less Dead

**A THE TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD**'This is crime writing of the highest order' The Times When we get killed, they call us the less dead , like we were never really alive to being with When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades.She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone... Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty Val McDermid'More proof that Denise Mina is Britain's best living crime writer' Sunday ExpressREADERS LOVE THE LESS DEAD:'One of the best books you'll read' *****'Unputdownable' *****'Gripping' *****'An intelligent, gripping and compassionate crime novel' *****