title: Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
author:  Diane Fanning 
description: <b>PRAISE FOR DIANE FANNING</b><br /> <br /> Very few writers have the insight and gift to take a true story and make it one hell of a page-turner.Susan Murphy Milano, domestic violence victims advocate, on <i>A Poisoned Passion</i><br /> <br /> Unbelievable stuff!Mike DeForest, WKMG-TV, on <i>Mommys Little Girl</i><br /> <i></i><br /> I couldnt put it down until I had finished it...A story thats enjoyable to read and accurate to detail.Herb Betz on <i>Through the Window</i><br /> <br /> I was astonished by how good this book wasinsightful, well written, and fascinating.Hugh Aynesworth, four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, on <i>Out There</i>
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  **RESOLUTION**
  
   **The Third Book in the Garnethill Trilogy**
  
    
  
   **Denise Mina**
  
  Copyright Š 2001 by Denise Mina
  
    
    
  
  Synopsis:
  
  Maureen O’Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more
  than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell, the psychologist who
  murdered her boyfriend, is up for trial, with Maureen as the reluctant star
  witness; and her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of
  her sister’s baby. On top of it all, Maureen  who identifies all too readily
  with the underdogs of this world  has become embroiled in someone else’s
  family feud.
  
  When an elderly stallholder at the flea market where Maureen and Leslie are
  selling illegally imported cigarettes dies in hospital after a brutal beating,
  Maureen questions why anyone might want to kill the woman popularly known as
  ‘Home Gran’. She suspects Ella’s son, but Si McGee is an upstanding member of
  the Scottish business community, runs a chain of estate agents and has a
  health 