Denise Mina, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (349p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0612-9
From its opening pages, this winner of the 1998 John Creasy Memorial Award for best first crime novel pulls readers inexorably into the tortured world of sexual abuse victims and their struggle to survive as whole people. Eight months after spending
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-38057-7
In this outstanding standalone, set in late-1950s Glasgow, from Edgar-finalist Mina (Blood, Salt, Water), William Watt stands accused of butchering his wife, daughter, and sister-in-law, but he vehemently proclaims his innocence. Only ace attorney...
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-38054-6
Roxanna Fuentecilla, the suspicious character at the center of Mina’s riveting sixth novel featuring Glasgow Det. Insp. Alex Morrow (after 2013’s The Red Road), has been under loose surveillance. The Scottish police suspect her of shady business...
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-18851-7
Edgar-finalist Mina's fourth novel featuring Glasgow Det. Insp. Alex Morrow (after 2013's Gods and Beasts) is perhaps her finest yet, a brilliantly crafted tale of corruption, ruined lives, and the far-reaching ripple effects of crime. Morrow is...
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-18852-4
At the start of Scottish author Mina’s excellent third crime novel featuring Det. Sgt. Alex Morrow (after 2011’s The End of the Wasp Season), a lone gunman enters a Glasgow post office, where he orders the patrons to lie on the floor. An elderly...
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-06933-5
In Mina's stellar follow-up to Still Midnight, Det. Sgt. Alex Morrow, who's five months pregnant with twins, looks into the murder of Sarah Erroll, who was kicked to death in her childhood home in an affluent Glasgow suburb. The discovery of more...
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Denise Mina, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0838-3
Following her Creasy Award-winning debut, Garnethill (1999), Mina delivers a second powerful novel with the same self-destructive characters, notably protagonist Maureen O'Donnell, and the same grim, gritty British locales. Maureen, while working at
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Denise Mina, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1010-2
In this powerful, disturbing, wrenching conclusion to the Scottish author's Garnethill trilogy (Garnethill; Exile), the sense of everydayness renders the horrors Mina's Glaswegians confront even more terrible. Forced prostitution, child...
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Denise Mina, Author Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur $24.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-316-01563-9
At the outset of Mina’s stellar first in a new series, two men in army fatigues, Pat and Eddy, break into the suburban Glasgow house of the Anwars, a Muslim family, demanding to speak to a man none of the family has ever heard of. The pair...
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Denise Mina, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-316-01558-5
Set in 1990, Mina's superb third thriller to feature Paddy Meehan (after 2006's Edgar-finalist The Dead Hour
) finds the Glaswegian journalist embroiled in the most politically charged and personal story of her career. When the corpse of...
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Denise Mina, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (341p) ISBN 978-0-316-73594-0
Set in Glasgow in 1984, Mina's riveting second thriller to feature Patricia "Paddy" Meehan (after 2005's A Field of Blood
) opens with the 21-year-old crime reporter for the Scottish Daily News
following up a late-night disturbance...
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Denise Mina, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-316-73593-3
If this novel were a movie, filmgoers would tag it the one to beat for the Oscars. Beyond creating sweaty physical tension, the brilliant Mina may have invented a subgenre: moral suspense. Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a copygirl at Glasgow's
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Denise Mina, Author . Little, Brown $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-73592-6
When psychiatrist Susie Harriott is convicted of murdering Glasgow serial killer Andrew Gow, her husband, Lachlan, embarks on a frantic search for material that may help with her appeal. But in going through her files, he finds layer upon layer of...
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Denise Mina, Andrea Mutti, and Leonardo Manco. DC/Vertigo, $19.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3557-4
The late Stieg Larsson’s slick potboiler is wildly popular in both movie and novel form; its tale—disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his unorthodox ally hacker/investigator, Lisbeth Salander, struggle to discover the truth behind the...
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Denise Mina and Antonio Fusa, DC/Vertigo Crime, $19.99 (184p) ISBN 978-1-401-21081-6
Scottish crime novelist Mina, previously known in comics for a run on Hellblazer, provides a creepy, taut tale of family greed that leads to murder. At first the Ushers' squabbles over money, home renovations, and who will take care of grandma are...
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Denise Mina, read by Jane MacFarlane. AudioGO, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-61113-021-8
In Mina’s latest thriller (and follow-up to Still Midnight) set around and in contemporary Glasgow, detective Alex Morrow—pregnant with twins—must investigate the brutal murder of a young woman named Sarah Errol. What Morrow finds is a web of deceit
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Denise Mina, Author, Heather O'Neill, Read by , read by Heather O'Neill. HighBridge Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-964-2
It's a pleasure to listen to O'Neill's lovely Scottish rhythms and accent narrating this alternately amusing and chilling mystery of the recent death of a three-year-old—a death intricately connected with a similar murder a decade...
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Denise Mina. Mulholland, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-52850-4
Anna McDonald, the heroine of this spellbinding thriller from Edgar finalist Mina (The Long Drop), fled her personal problems in London and started over in Glasgow nine years earlier. She’s now engrossed in true-crime podcasts such as Death and the...
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Denise Mina. Little, Brown, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-52851-1
In this disappointing psychological thriller set in Glasgow from Edgar finalist Mina (Conviction), physician Margo Dunlop discovers undelivered letters in her late mother’s belongings that lead her to Nikki, the sister of Margo’s previously unknown...
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Denise Mina. Pegasus Crime, $20.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-64313-845-9
Bestseller Mina (The Less Dead) vividly recreates a gruesome episode from the Tudor era in this searing novella set mostly over the course of a single day, Mar. 9, 1566. Mary, Queen of Scots, is the target of a conspiracy. Her ambitious husband,...
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Denise Mina. Mulholland, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-24272-1
In Edgar finalist Mina’s rambling sequel to 2019’s Conviction, Anna McDonald and Fin Cohen, a pair of podcasters whose spouses left each of them for one another, go looking for Lisa Lee, a little-watched maker of videos about urban exploring who...
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Denise Mina. Pegasus Crime, $22 (352p) ISBN 978-1-63936-455-8
Mina (Rizzio) fictionalizes the life of Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), who was executed for heresy, in this vivid historical thriller. The novel opens in 1498 Florence, with Savonarola reading a coerced confession stating that he’s
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Denise Mina. Mulholland, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316265-64-5
Mina (The Less Dead) successfully emulates the language and tone of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled novels featuring California P.I. Marlowe in this terrific pastiche. Though Marlowe has been instrumental in solving the murder of cowboy actor Pasco...
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