Denise Mina is the author of seventeen novels, including the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick Conviction and its sequel, Confidence; The Less Dead; The Long Drop--winner of the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year--and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime novel. Mina has twice received the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow.