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Denise Mina

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Born

in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.denisemina.co.uk/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

Member Since

March 2013

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Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Because of her father's job as an Engineer, the family followed the north sea oil boom of the seventies around Europe
She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs, including working in a meat factory, as a bar maid, kitchen porter and cook.
Eventually she settled in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients.
At twenty one she passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde University on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, teaching criminology and criminal law in the mean time.
Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a novel, 'Garnethill' when she was supposed to be studying instead.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 173,849 ratings · 14,981 reviews · 112 distinct works • Similar authors

	Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 51,825 ratings — published 2019 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A Graphic Novel, Book 1 by Denise Mina (Goodreads Author) (Adaptor), Andrea Mutti (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Leonardo Manco (Illustrator) 4.46 avg rating — 14,236 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A Graphic Novel by Denise Mina (Goodreads Author), Andrea Mutti (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Leonardo Manco (Illustrator) 4.59 avg rating — 12,687 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garnethill (Garnethill, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 9,954 ratings — published 1998 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Wasp Season (Alex Morrow, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 8,878 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Midnight (Alex Morrow, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 9,013 ratings — published 2009 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 4,939 ratings — published 2005 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rizzio 3.86 avg rating — 4,875 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Less Dead 3.42 avg rating — 4,716 ratings — published 2020 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Drop 3.39 avg rating — 4,651 ratings — published 2017 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Anna and Fin (2 books)
by

Denise Mina (Goodreads Author)

3.51 avg rating — 55,229 ratings

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: A Graphic Novel (4 books)
by

Denise Mina (Goodreads Author) (Adapted by),

Andrea Mutti (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations),

Antonio Fuso (Illustrations),

Giulia Brusco (Colors),

Patricia Mulvihill (Colors),

Steve Wands (Letters),

Lee Bermejo (Cover),

Stieg Larsson (Based on the novel by)

4.46 avg rating — 30,035 ratings

Alex Morrow (5 books)
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Denise Mina (Goodreads Author)

3.72 avg rating — 28,283 ratings

Garnethill (4 books)
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Denise Mina (Goodreads Author)

3.89 avg rating — 16,760 ratings

Paddy Meehan (3 books)
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Denise Mina (Goodreads Author)

3.85 avg rating — 11,206 ratings

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“If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.”
― Denise Mina, Still Midnight

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“Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch.”
― Denise Mina, Conviction

tags: humorous-quotations

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“January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter”
― Denise Mina, Exile

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December 2013/January 2014 Group Read

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16 votes, 5.8%

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13 votes, 4.7%

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9 votes, 3.2%

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8 votes, 2.9%

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8 votes, 2.9%

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Lisa Gardner

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Neil Gaiman

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Raymond Chandler

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Charles Todd

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Robert Crais

5 votes, 1.8%

Clive Cussler

4 votes, 1.4%

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John D. MacDonald

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John Connolly

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Tana French

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Chelsea Cain

4 votes, 1.4%

Denise Mina

4 votes, 1.4%

Rita Mae Brown

4 votes, 1.4%

P.D. James

4 votes, 1.4%

Alan Furst

4 votes, 1.4%

James M. Cain

4 votes, 1.4%

John Sandford

3 votes, 1.1%

Ann Cleeves

3 votes, 1.1%

Ruth Rendell

3 votes, 1.1%

C.J. Sansom

3 votes, 1.1%

Linwood Barclay

3 votes, 1.1%

Alan Bradley

3 votes, 1.1%

Nevada Barr

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T. Jefferson Parker

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Anne Perry

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Mark Billingham

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Ellis Peters

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Andrew Vachss

2 votes, 0.7%

James Patterson

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Jonathan Kellerman

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Martin Limón

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Margaret Millar

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Donald E. Westlake

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Martin Cruz Smith

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Victoria Thompson

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Michael Crichton

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Dana Stabenow

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Linda Fairstein

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Joy Fielding

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Michael Robotham

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James Lee Burke

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J.T. Ellison

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Colin Dexter

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Peter Robinson

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Gregg Olsen

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Julia Spencer-Fleming

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Patricia Cornwell

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Daniel Silva

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