Denise Mina
Autore di La donna di Glasgow
Sull'Autore
Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. She initially left school at the age of 16 and worked a variety of low skilled jobs like bar maid and kitchen porter. She later returned to school and earned a law degree from Glasgow University. She has since become a crime writer and playwright. She has mostra altro authored the Garnethill trilogy and three novels featuring the character Patricia Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. She has also done some comic book writing with 13 issues of Hellblazer. She won the John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel for her book, Garnethill, in 1998. She also won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award with her title,The End of Wasp Season, in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Denise Mina
The Field of Blood Part 1 2 copie
Hellblazer #226 2 copie
Hellblazer #228 2 copie
Hellblazer #227 2 copie
Fester Glaube (German Edition) 1 copia
The dog of the South 1 copia
Helena And The Babies 1 copia
By Denise Mina - John Constantine, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy (2006-11-30) [Paperback] (1900) 1 copia
Chris Takes The Bus 1 copia
Opere correlate
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1966-08-21
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK (birth)
Paris, France
The Hague, Netherlands
England, UK
Norway - Istruzione
- University of Glasgow
University of Strathclyde - Attività lavorative
- crime writer
comic book writer
playwright - Agente
- HEnry Dina
- Breve biografia
- Denise Mina was born in Glasgow, Scotland to an oil engineer whose work caused the family to move 20 times as she grew up, from Paris to The Hague, to England, Scotland, and Norway. She left school at age 16 and worked in a variety of low-skilled jobs, including barmaid, kitchen porter, cook, and hospice nurse. At age 21, she returned to school and earning a law degree from Glasgow University.
It was while researching her PhD thesis in criminal justice at Strathclyde University in the 1990s that she decided to write her first novel, Garnethill. It was published in 1998 and won the John Creasy Award for best first crime novel. She turned to writing fiction full-time and her work has been described as Tartan Noir. Her 2005 novel The Field of Blood, the first in a trilogy featuring the young Glaswegian journalist and amateur sleuth Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, was adapted into a television film by the BBC in 2011. The Dead Hour was filmed and broadcast in 2013. She lives in Glasgow with her partner Stephen Evans and their son.
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Recensioni
This novella has left me needing to dive into a Mary Queen of Scots rabbit hole. Mina quickly hooked me into the brutal world of politics and royal life in 16th century Scotland; not a surprise really, considering I have enjoyed her other crime novels set in contemporary Scotland. Recommended.
Really liked it. The story was interesting, I kept routing for the poor old man to get away. At the same time, the author created sympathy for some of the "bad" guys and what seemed a realistic humanity in her cops.A kidnapping occurs, we know who has done it, but it is the why that is revealed over time throughout the book
This was a really well done mystery. It was a bit like Columbo, in that you are there when it happens, you basically know who did it, but you watch the investigation unfold. The character development is incredible, the honest and painful family dynamics, every relationship, even those at the police station, delineated in the complex way of real human relationships.In the end you find out which boy really participated and which watched and it is a bit devastating. will definitely read more in the series… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 60
- Opere correlate
- 14
- Utenti
- 9,970
- Popolarità
- #2,387
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 482
- ISBN
- 609
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 23
Gaby described it perfectly in this definition "from the Double Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary: "Scottish detective fiction, or Tartan Noir as it’s called, with its brooding sensibility, brutal humor and fixation on the nature of guilt and punishment, has more in common with the Russian novel than it does with traditional detective writing." Set in Glasgow, Still Midnight falls within this umbrella of Tartan Noir with the flawed detective hero, Alex Morrow." I picked it up because of the female protagonist, Alex, and was instantly caught up by her good writing and subtle, spot-on descriptive talents combined with a good mystery.
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