Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. 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, her latest novel, won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and the Gordon Burn Prize. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.
Mina's storytelling is always vivid and exciting, and Anna is a complex, well-rounded figure * Spectator * One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years -- A. J. Finn Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty -- Val McDermid Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions -- Ian Rankin Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once -- Nicci French