Conviction

The start of a brilliant new series from an exceptional, award-winning crime writer.EVERYBODY LOVES A MURDER MYSTERY . . . UNTIL THEY HAVE A STARRING ROLE.*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK'Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty' Ian Rankin'Such a delight- playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann CleevesIt's just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him.With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else's story- a true-crime podcast. That is until she recognises the name of one of the victims and becomes convinced that only she knows what really happened.With nothing left to lose, she throws herself into investigating the case. But little does she know, Anna's past and present lives are about to collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall.CONFIDENCE, THE FOLLOW UP TO CONVICTION, IS AVAILABLE NOW'If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly'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

Long-listed for Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize 2019 (UK)

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

This highly original, ballsy thriller is like nothing you have read – or Denise Mina has written – before -- Mark Sanderson The Times, Books of the Year
You won't be able to put Conviction down
It is clear from the very start of Denise Mina’s Conviction quite how much fun she – and her readers – are about to have… Mina is such a classy writer and Anna is a darkly brilliant creation Observer
A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction

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.

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