Denise Mina

Denise Mina is a Scottish crime fiction author born in 1966 in Glasgow. She studied law and forensic science at Glasgow University and completed a PhD at Strathclyde University. Mina is known for her gritty, darkly humorous, and morally complex crime novels, and has been a key figure in the Tartan Noir genre. She has also written plays, graphic novels, and presented TV and radio programs. She was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014.