In the end, she's rewarded with a little bit of peace and a renewed friendship with Leslie. Her investigation leads her all over Glasgow and London as she puts herself in ever-more-dangerous situations - purportedly to try and find the truth, but clearly also engaging in self-destructive behavior. She's at a very low point, crying all the time with no prompting and contemplating suicide, so when her friend Leslie asks for her help in investigating the disappearance of a woman from the battered women's shelter Leslie manages, Maureen is actually kind of grateful for the distraction.
Maureen, our heroine, is recovering from the death of her psychologist/lover, the return of her child-rapist father to Glasgow, her family's unwillingness to accept her hatred and fear of her father, and also her last encounter with a psychopath now safe(ish)ly locked away in jail. And if you like that sort of thing, Exile is even more bleak and psychological than the first book in this particular series. They're usually set in Scotland, which furthers my delight (I'm SUCH an Anglophile.). She writes mysteries wrapped in squalor and drama and tied up with a little crazy bow. This is more brutal and seedy than the first installment, so hang on its a bumpy ride, but what a ride. She decides to find out what really happened. He's trying to raise his "weens" on his own with no money in a nasty apartment and in a "crap" neighborhood.Īfter meeting the passive father, Mauri realizes he could never have tortured and killed anyone, let alone his wife. Maureen goes to meet the wretched man and while revolted by his physical ugliness, she is filled with pity for the horrible life he leads. He has been accused of the murder and torture of his wife, Ann, found stuffed in a mattress. Needing something to fill the gap of friendship, Maureen takes interest in the plight of Leslie's cousin, a poor, downtrodden bloke who is raising four little boys on his own.
Liam, her brother, reassures her that it's only temporary, as it's the honeymoon phase of their relationship.
Leslie ignores Maureen and shuts her out and Mauri is hurt and bewildered. Part 2 in the Garnethill series doesn't disappointīroken and bruised from the murder of her boyfriend, Maureen needs her best friend more than ever, but Leslie is in love for the first time.
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