Denise Mina

Denise Mina is one of the most original voices in fiction and described by Ian Rankin as the most exciting crime writer to have emerged in Britain for years. She is the author of eighteen hugely successful and critically acclaimed crime novels, the latest being Confidence. She has twice won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and The Long Drop, her fictionalised tale of a meeting between mass murderer Peter Manuel and the father of the family he has slaughtered, won the McIlvanney Prize.