The Less Dead

Back to the grungy drug addled Glasgow of her early books, but this time with sex workers and finding and making family. I love the way Mina’s characters make families for themselves, and I love the care she takes here in portraying sex workers as fully fledged people. I did not love the bits of having to see through the killer’s eyes—that misogyny was hard to be dunked into, even though it was the point. It’s a brutal world, like most Mina, but, as is also true with most Mina, the characters make their own escapes and communities.