Denise Mina

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Journey through the shadowy underbelly of 1940s LA in this new murder mystery

The Second Murderer

Shortlisted for the COSTA Prize

The Less Dead

THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Conviction

The Last Breath

The iconic thriller from ‘Britain’s best living crime writer’

The Field of Blood

The Dead Hour

Exile

Resolution

Sanctum

From the Costa Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Less Dead

Garnethill

The Long Drop

Confidence

Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions

Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty

A cinematic thriller... Hitchcockian

[It is Mina's] sulphurous wit that makes her books a joy to read

A playful novel, written with energy, inventiveness and glee

Intriguing, touching, often very funny and full of ideas

Outrageously enjoyable. A rollicking mystery populated by unforgettable characters - like Indiana Jones on acid.

Denise Mina is amazing and Confidence is just a delight; poignant, heartbreaking, dark and hilarious. I so want to be part of the gang with Anna, Fin, Bram, and Marcos as they charge across Europe. Such a perfect and thrilling adventure!

A fun, thrilling and perfectly plotted adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat

Mina's storytelling is always vivid and exciting, and Anna is a complex, well-rounded figure

One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years

Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once

The excellent Denise Mina's latest is an irresistible thriller... A considerably sassier and much funnier alternative to The Da Vinci Code and its kind

The sequel to the joyously funny Conviction... although there's a laugh on nearly every page, it's not short on thrills

A playful novel, written with energy, inventiveness and glee

This romp unfolds as a glorious spoof of The Da Vinci Code but it's not short on thrills

The NEW page-turning thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Conviction

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
Anna is back. Confidence reunites the reader with Anna and Finn - the stars of Denise Mina's critically acclaimed thriller Conviction (A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick). 
 
Anna and Finn investigate a young girl's disappearance which seems to be connected to an art heist years ago. Beginning in a tumble-down chateau in rural France and taking the reader on a thrilling chase across Europe, Confidence, is another stellar novel from one of crime writing's most accomplished authors. 
 
PRAISE FOR CONVICTION: 
 
If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly 
 
'Such a delight: playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves 
 
'A dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 
 
© Denise Mina 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

‘Riveting and fast-paced’ Sunday Times

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio and Three Fires. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.

'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 
 
Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. A brand new escapist thriller from the award-winning author of Conviction 
 
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. 
 
But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. One day after Lisa vanishes that casket gets listed for auction in Paris, reserve price fifty million euro and a catalogue entry that could challenge the fundamental principles of a major world religion. 
 
On a thrilling chase across Europe, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry. 
 
Confidence, is a thrill of a novel from one of crime writing's most accomplished authors. 
 
 
PRAISE FOR CONVICTION: 
 
'If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly 
 
'Such a delight: playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves 
 
'A dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window

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