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THE TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'This is crime writing of the highest order' The TimesWhen 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...*NOMINATED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD**A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, SELECTED BY LEE CHILD*CONFIDENCE , THE NEW NOVEL BY DENISE MINA, IS AVAILABLE NOW_______________________________________________________PRAISE FOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DENISE'More proof that Denise Mina is Britain's best living crime writer' Sunday Express on The Less Dead'Mina is the most compassionate of crime novelists... a dark and heartfelt novel' Mail on Sunday on The Less Dead'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions and never fails to deliver' Ian Rankin'You won't be able to put Conviction down' Reese Witherspoon'Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good' Daily Express on The Long Drop'An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow...and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind' The Times on The Long Drop : Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade'Denise Mina gets to the heart of what crime really is. You feel like you are right there, in all the dark nooks and crannies that her characters inhabit' Sunday Times and International Bestselling Author, Karin Slaughter____________________________________________________READERS LOVE THE LESS DEAD :'One of the best books you'll read' *****'Unputdownable' *****'Gripping' *****'An intelligent, gripping and compassionate crime novel' *****

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After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Invergordon, Bergen and Perth, Denise Mina left school early. Working in a number of dead end jobs, all of them badly, before studying at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School.
Denise went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde, misusing her student grant to write her first novel. This was Garnethill, published in 1998, which won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel.
She has now published 12 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels.
In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers Association Hall of Fame.
She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad, leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey s Prize for Women s Fiction 2014.

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