Denise Mina

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born

January 01, 1966 in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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female

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

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Mystery & Thrillers

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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: 3.76 · 7,304 ratings · 1,157 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Garnethill (Garnethill, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Field Of Blood (Paddy Meehan, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 770 ratings — published 2005 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan, #2) 3.81 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Exile (Gartnethill, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Still Midnight (Alex Morrow, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The End Of The Wasp Season (Alex Morrow, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Slip Of The Knife (Paddy Meehan, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy by Denise Mina, Leonardo Manco (Illustrator), Ian Rankin (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 428 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Resolution (Garnethill, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Deception 3.53 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	My rating:

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Garnethill (3 books)
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Paddy Meehan (3 books)
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Alex Morrow (3 books)
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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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