Conviction: THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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The start of a brilliant new series from an exceptional, award-winning crime writer. EVERYBODY LOVES A MURDER MYSTERY . . . UNTIL THEY HAVE A STARRING ROLE. *A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK* 'Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty' Ian Rankin 'Such a delight- playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves It's just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else's story- a true-crime podcast. That is until she recognises the name of one of the victims and becomes convinced that only she knows what really happened. With nothing left to lose, she throws herself into investigating the case. But little does she know, Anna's past and present lives are about to collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall. *CONFIDENCE, THE FOLLOW UP TO CONVICTION, IS AVAILABLE NOW* 'If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly 'A dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window

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Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions
This highly original, ballsy thriller is like nothing you have read or Denise Mina has written before -- Mark Sanderson * The Times, *Books of the Year* *
You won't be able to put Conviction down
It is clear from the very start of Denise Minas Conviction quite how much fun she and her readers are about to have Mina is such a classy writer and Anna is a darkly brilliant creation * Observer *
A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction

Author Bio

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers' Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2017 and the Gordon Burn Prize. Conviction is the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and it was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.