Results for: Denise mina
Conviction by Denise Mina****
29 April 2020Reading dates: 11-28 April 2020 I like this last novel by Denise Mina a lot more than her acclaimed The Long Drop. It all starts with a podcast and it…
The Field of Blood by Denise Mina ****
17 March 2014…as Denise Mina, even better. The central character of this novel, Paddy Meehan, shares her name with the infamous robber who suffered a miscarriage of justice. Their two narratives are…
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina****
7 December 2014Reading dates: 14 November – 06 December 2014 Denise Mina’s crime novel characters are like no other. There is a clarity to Paddy Meehan and to Maureen O’Donnell that Jo…
Confidence by Denise Mina**
25 June 2024Reading Dates: 20 May – 24 June 2024 I usually love Denise Mina’s novels and I am unsure as to why I found this such hard work. I did not…
The Long Drop by Denise Mina***
20 November 2017Reading dates: 13 October–17 November 2017 I love Denise Mina and I love the fact that she is an artist, and experiments, even though she also has a winning formula…
The Red Road by Denise Mina***
9 June 2015…experience. It is a fast read, but not a trashy one. There is something to the moral and social commentary of Denise Mina that puts her crime novels a tad…
The Less Dead by Denise Mina*****
23 October 2021…and the main character is not a traditional detective or someone with detection skills. I have been a Mina fan for quite a while and I love it when I…
Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina****
1 July 2017…with Mina, Glasgow, the city I have lived in for the last 12 years, is alive, well observed and represented. The plot is a good combination of new stuff and…
A sickness in the family by Denise Mina ***
8 February 2015Reading dates: 1 – 6 February 2015 A sickness in the family is a gripping, well put together graphic novel, with exquisite drawings. It is a quick, intense, enjoyable read…
Read in 2012
1 January 2013…by Denise Mina The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard The City & the City by China Miéville David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The…
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin *
10 August 2013…is addictive, but Rankin made me miss Denise Mina and the good in Jo Nesbo. Perhaps it is the voice, the fact that the narrator is not Rebus, that annoyed…
2014 reading round-up
31 December 2014…(Paddy Meehan, #2) by Mina, Denise Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Gustave Revolt, She Said by Kristeva, Julia Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) by Wodehouse, P.G. Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3) by…
2011 in books
31 December 2011…too bla… tagged: kindle-books and crime-fiction Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson tagged: kindle-books and literature Garnethill by Denise Mina A good story, well…
Gone girl by Gillian Flynn***
27 December 2014…can bear the hard work. I also want to read more Denise Mina but want to be really enthralled. Any ideas? Can you give me a reading list for 2015?…
Police by Jo Nesbø***
3 January 2018…I know that writing literary crime fiction is hard, but this is why I very much admire David Peace, Denise Mina and Louise Welsh. They know when to stop. Unlike…
Echo Burning by Lee Child ***
5 October 2018…himself in the way I feel for Denise Mina’s characters or even Harry Hole. I want him a bit more vulnerable, less robotic. I was hoping for a bit of…
In the Woods by Tana French ****
13 January 2019…also reminds me of my favourite Denise Mina, in her descriptions of Glasgow at night. This is high praise from me! My criterion for 5 stars is the certainty that…
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler***
11 April 2020…particular. Nothing I connected with like I connect with Nesbø (although not always), Denise Mina or Tana French. But, equally, it was a good thriller, and sometimes I need those….
Never Somewhere Else by Alex Gray**
24 April 2014…Surely someone can go where Gombrowicz went with Cosmos, or Poe with The Purloined Letter. But who? Denise Mina got close with the Garnethill trilogy (especially through the fabulous main…
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney****
23 April 2021…of McIlvanney even though he seems to be a central influence on my favourite crime writer Denise Mina (whom I am hearing speak tonight, on World Book Day). McIlvanney did…
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1 June 2006I am an artist, writer and yoga teacher. My recent practice involves performance, film, dance, photography and text, and my work has been performed, exhibited and published in Europe and…