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'''Denise Mina''' (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish ] and playwright. She has written the ''Garnethill'' trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a ] ]. Described as an author of ], she has also dabbled in ] writing, having written 13 issues of '']''.<ref name="vert-hell">{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = John Constantine Hellblazer | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 102–111 | publisher = ] | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref> '''Denise Mina''' (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish ] and playwright. She has written the ''Garnethill'' trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a ] ]. Described as an author of ], she has also written for ]s, including 13 issues of '']''.<ref name="vert-hell">{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = John Constantine Hellblazer | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 102–111 | publisher = ] | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref>


Mina's first Paddy Meehan novel, ''The Field of Blood'' (2005), was ] in 2011 by the ], starring ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite news Mina's first Paddy Meehan novel, ''The Field of Blood'' (2005), was ] in 2011 by the ], starring ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite news
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}}</ref> The second, ''The Dead Hour,'' was filmed and broadcast in 2013.<ref>, ''The Arts Desk'', 9 August 2013.</ref> }}</ref> The second, ''The Dead Hour,'' was filmed and broadcast in 2013.<ref>, ''The Arts Desk'', 9 August 2013.</ref>


== Biography == == Biography ==
Denise Mina was born in ] in 1966. Her father worked as an engineer. Because of his work, the family moved 21 times in 18 years: from Paris to ], London, Scotland and ]; she has also professed an affection for ], her mother's home town.<ref>, Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 23 May 2012</ref> Mina left school at 16 and worked in a variety of low-skilled jobs, including as a barmaid, kitchen porter and cook. She also worked for a time in a meat-processing factory. In her twenties she worked in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients, before returning to education and earning a law degree from ].<ref>Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007), ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', Greenwood Press, 2nd edn, p. 178 ({{ISBN|0-313-33428-5}}).</ref> Denise Mina was born in ] in 1966. Her father worked as an engineer. Because of his work, the family moved 21 times in 18 years: from Paris to ], London, Scotland and ]; she has also professed an affection for ], her mother's home town.<ref>, Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 23 May 2012</ref> Mina left school at 16 and worked in a variety of jobs, including as a kitchen porter, a cook and behind a bar. She also worked for a time in a meat-processing factory. In her twenties she worked in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients, before returning to education and earning a law degree from ].<ref>Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007), ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', Greenwood Press, 2nd edn, p. 178 ({{ISBN|0-313-33428-5}}).</ref>


It was while researching a PhD thesis on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, and teaching criminology and criminal law at ] in the 1990s, that she decided to write her first novel ''Garnethill'', published in 1998 by ]. It was while researching a PhD thesis on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, and teaching criminology and criminal law at ] in the 1990s, that she decided to write her first novel ''Garnethill'', published in 1998 by ].
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*2013 ], ''Gods and Beasts''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/19/denise-mina-theakstons-old-peculier-crime-novel |first=Liz|last= Bury |date=19 July 2013 |access-date=14 September 2018 |work=The Guardian |title=Denise Mina steals Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award }}</ref> *2013 ], ''Gods and Beasts''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/19/denise-mina-theakstons-old-peculier-crime-novel |first=Liz|last= Bury |date=19 July 2013 |access-date=14 September 2018 |work=The Guardian |title=Denise Mina steals Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award }}</ref>
*2017 ], ''The Long Drop''<ref>{{cite web|title=The winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 is announced|url=http://newwritingnorth.com/news/winner-gordon-burn-prize-2017-announced/|first=Alan|last= McDonald|website=New Writing North|access-date=16 March 2018|date=12 October 2017}}</ref> *2017 ], ''The Long Drop''<ref>{{cite web|title=The winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 is announced|url=http://newwritingnorth.com/news/winner-gordon-burn-prize-2017-announced/|first=Alan|last= McDonald|website=New Writing North|access-date=16 March 2018|date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
*2017 ], ''The Long Drop''<ref>{{cite web|title=McIlvanney Prize 2017 Winner|url=https://bloodyscotland.com/announcements/mcilvanney-prize-2017-winner/|website=Bloody Scotland|access-date=14 September 2018|date=8 September 2017}}</ref> *2017 ] for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year, ''The Long Drop''<ref>{{cite web|title=McIlvanney Prize 2017 Winner|url=https://bloodyscotland.com/announcements/mcilvanney-prize-2017-winner/|website=Bloody Scotland|access-date=14 September 2018|date=8 September 2017}}</ref>
*2020 Deutscher Krimi Preis (Category: International crime writers) for ''Gods and Beasts''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-28 |title=Deutscher Krimipreis vergeben |url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/preise-und-auszeichnungen/deutscher-krimipreis-vergeben-159895 |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=boersenblatt.net}}</ref> *2020 Deutscher Krimi Preis (Category: International crime writers) for ''Gods and Beasts''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-28 |title=Deutscher Krimipreis vergeben |url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/preise-und-auszeichnungen/deutscher-krimipreis-vergeben-159895 |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=boersenblatt.net}}</ref>


==Bibliography== ==Bibliography==
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===Novels=== ===Novels===
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*''Sanctum'' (2003) (published as ''Deception'' in the US in 2004) *''Sanctum'' (2003) (published as ''Deception'' in the US in 2004)
*''The Long Drop'' (2017) based on the 1958 trial and execution of the serial killer ]. *''The Long Drop'' (2017) based on the 1958 trial and execution of the serial killer ].
*''Conviction'' (2019)
*''The Less Dead'' (2020) *''The Less Dead'' (2020)
*''Rizzio'' (2021) *''Rizzio'' (2021)
*''The Second Murderer'' (2023), a ] novel
*''Three Fires'' (2023)


===Comics=== ===Comics===
To date, the entirety of Mina's work in comics has been published under ]' ] imprint: To date, the entirety of Mina's work in comics has been published under ]' ] imprint:
*'']'' #216–228 (with ] and ] (#223), 2006–2007) collected as ''John Constantine, Hellblazer Volume 19'' (tpb, 328 pages, 2018, {{ISBN|1-401-28080-3}}) *'']'' #216–228 (with ] and Cristiano Cucina (#223), 2006–2007) collected as ''John Constantine, Hellblazer Volume 19'' (tpb, 328 pages, 2018, {{ISBN|1-401-28080-3}})
*'']: ]'' (with ], ], 192 pages, 2010, {{ISBN|1-4012-1081-3}}) *'']: A Sickness in the Family'' (with Antonio Fuso, ], 192 pages, 2010, {{ISBN|1-4012-1081-3}})
*The ] graphic novel adaptations: *The ] graphic novel adaptations:
**'']'' (tpb, 312 pages, 2014, {{ISBN|1-4012-4286-3}}) collects: **'']'' (tpb, 312 pages, 2014, {{ISBN|1-4012-4286-3}}) collects:
*** ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book One'' (with Leonardo Manco and ], hc, 152 pages, 2012, {{ISBN|1-40123-557-3}}) *** ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book One'' (with Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, hc, 152 pages, 2012, {{ISBN|1-40123-557-3}})
*** ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book Two'' (with Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, hc, 160 pages, 2013, {{ISBN|1-4012-3558-1}}) *** ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book Two'' (with Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, hc, 160 pages, 2013, {{ISBN|1-4012-3558-1}})
**'']'' (with Andrea Mutti, Leonardo Manco and Antonio Fuso, hc, 288 pages, 2014, {{ISBN|1-401-23757-6}}; sc, 2015, {{ISBN|1-4012-5550-7}}) **'']'' (with Andrea Mutti, Leonardo Manco and Antonio Fuso, hc, 288 pages, 2014, {{ISBN|1-401-23757-6}}; sc, 2015, {{ISBN|1-4012-5550-7}})
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*{{official website}} *{{official website}}
*{{british council|id=denise-mina|name=Denise Mina}} *{{british council|id=denise-mina|name=Denise Mina}}
* review and interview in '']''
*{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} talking with ] at the ] (transcript and audio), 17 August 2006
*Amy Myers, review in ShotsMag Ezine *Amy Myers, review in ShotsMag Ezine


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Scottish crime writer, playwright (born 1966)

Denise Mina
Born (1966-08-21) 21 August 1966 (age 58)
East Kilbride, Scotland
GenreCrime fiction
Notable worksGarnethill, The Long Drop
Website
www.denisemina.co.uk

Denise Mina (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also written for comic books, including 13 issues of Hellblazer.

Mina's first Paddy Meehan novel, The Field of Blood (2005), was filmed for broadcast in 2011 by the BBC, starring Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi and David Morrissey. The second, The Dead Hour, was filmed and broadcast in 2013.

Biography

Denise Mina was born in East Kilbride in 1966. Her father worked as an engineer. Because of his work, the family moved 21 times in 18 years: from Paris to The Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen; she has also professed an affection for Rutherglen, her mother's home town. Mina left school at 16 and worked in a variety of jobs, including as a kitchen porter, a cook and behind a bar. She also worked for a time in a meat-processing factory. In her twenties she worked in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients, before returning to education and earning a law degree from Glasgow University.

It was while researching a PhD thesis on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, and teaching criminology and criminal law at Strathclyde University in the 1990s, that she decided to write her first novel Garnethill, published in 1998 by Transworld.

Mina lives in Glasgow.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

Denise Mina signing books at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2007

Novels

Garnethill trilogy
  • Garnethill (1998)
  • Exile (2000)
  • Resolution (2001)
Patricia "Paddy" Meehan novels
  • The Field of Blood (2005)
  • The Dead Hour (2006)
  • The Last Breath (2007) – published as Slip of the Knife in America
Alex Morrow novels
  • Still Midnight (2009)
  • The End of the Wasp Season (2010)
  • Gods and Beasts (2012)
  • The Red Road (2013)
  • Blood, Salt, Water (2014)
Anna & Fin novels
  • Conviction (2019)
  • Confidence (2022)
Other novels
  • Sanctum (2003) (published as Deception in the US in 2004)
  • The Long Drop (2017) based on the 1958 trial and execution of the serial killer Peter Manuel.
  • The Less Dead (2020)
  • Rizzio (2021)
  • The Second Murderer (2023), a Philip Marlowe novel
  • Three Fires (2023)

Comics

To date, the entirety of Mina's work in comics has been published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint:

Plays

Notes

  1. Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102–111, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  2. Ellis, Maureen (13 December 2010). "Face to Face: Denise Mina". The Herald. Glasgow. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  3. "Field of Blood: The Dead Hour, BBC One", The Arts Desk, 9 August 2013.
  4. Crime author Denise Mina discusses Rutherglen roots, Jonathan Geddes, Daily Record, 23 May 2012
  5. Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2007), Great Women Mystery Writers, Greenwood Press, 2nd edn, p. 178 (ISBN 0-313-33428-5).
  6. Svenska Deckarakademin: Bästa översatta Archived 28 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine (In Swedish, list of winners of best foreign crime novels translated into Swedish, awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy)
  7. Flood, Alison (20 July 2012). "Denise Mina wins crime novel of the year award". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  8. Bury, Liz (19 July 2013). "Denise Mina steals Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel award". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  9. McDonald, Alan (12 October 2017). "The winner of the Gordon Burn Prize 2017 is announced". New Writing North. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  10. "McIlvanney Prize 2017 Winner". Bloody Scotland. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  11. "Deutscher Krimipreis vergeben". boersenblatt.net. 28 December 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

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Preceded byMike Carey Hellblazer writer
2006–2007 		Succeeded byAndy Diggle
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