Denise Mina - Author

Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Because of her father's job as an engineer, her family moved twenty-one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen.

After leaving school at sixteen and a run of poorly paid jobs, she went on to study Law at Glasgow University and researched a PhD thesis at Strathclyde. Misusing her grant, she stayed at home and wrote her first novel, Garnethill, which was published in 1998 and won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for best first crime novel.

Since 1998 she has written seven further novels, including The End of the Wasp Season which won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012. She also writes comics and in 2006 wrote her first play, 'Ida Tamson'. As well as all of this she writes short stories and is a regular contributor to TV and radio...

Her latest book, Gods and Beasts, is out in paperback in March 2013.

Maxim Jakubowski's view on ALEX MORROW...

A Glasgow cop with a nose for social injustice and the dark side of society, DS Alex Morrow is introduced in STILL MIDNIGHT by  Scottish author Denise Mina, whose previous series featured investigative journalist Paddie Meehan and social worker Maureen O’Donnell. Realistic and bleak investigations with a strong footing in today’s reality are Mina’s forte in all her books.

Author photo © Neil Davidson

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Gods and Beasts Denise Mina March 2013 Book of the Month. The recent winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award with The End of the Wasp Season is back with a dark... Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The End of the Wasp Season Denise Mina Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012. One of our Great Reads You May Have Missed in 2012. Barry Forshaw on Denise Mina and P. M. Hubbard... The parallels between the vivid and strikingly... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Sanctum Denise Mina A respected forensic psychiatrist is convicted of the gruesome murder of a serial killer ... but is she innocent? Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Dead Hour Denise Mina As Paddy pursues the dark and brutal truth, it could make her career - or end her life... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Exile Denise Mina Gritty, atmospheric of time and place with characters that have a real edge to them are the hallmarks of Denise Mina's Garnethill series that began with Garnethill and continues here in Exile. Exile is a dark thrillerwith dark undertones but... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Garnethill Denise Mina A stylishly written, highly suspenseful murder mystery set in Glasgow with a cast of tough characters and a fantastic protagonist, Maureen, who her enemies find out it has been ill-advised to pick on. Winner of the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Resolution Denise Mina 'Denise Mina is set to carve a niche for herself as the crown princess of crime' Val McDermid Garnethill series:1. Garnethill2. Exile3. Resolution Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Field of Blood Denise Mina Sticks and stones will break your bones... A powerfully gripping thriller from 'one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years' Ian Rankin. A 2-part TV adaptation of The Field of Blood is due to be... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Still Midnight Denise Mina Just look at the reviews for this author. Her peers love her, the press love her, have you heard of her? Well, it is time you did. She writes about Glasgow low-life, gritty and atmospheric. This concerns a kidnapping that... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Still Midnight Denise Mina ALEX MORROW - A Glasgow cop with a nose for social injustice and the dark side of society, DS Alex Morrow is introduced in STILL MIDNIGHT by Scottish author Denise Mina, whose previous series featured investigative journalist Paddie Meehan and... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2009 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)

The End of the Wasp Season Denise Mina Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011. In this stunning new novel DS Alex Morrow discovers that nothing is sacred, even human life...The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel, which traces the damaging consequences of... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/11/1999 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)

Gods and Beasts Denise Mina Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Crime & Thriller of the Year' 2012. A Glasgow post office one week before Christmas. Martin Pavel cowers on the floor, his eyes locked on those of a terrified child. Above them a masked... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2012 Lovereading Price: £9.74 - Saving £3.25 (25%)