Denise Mina

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1999
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Alex Morrow

1 - Still Midnight (Apr-2010)
2 - The End of the Wasp Season (Oct-2011)
3 - Gods and Beasts (Mar-2013)
4 - The Red Road (Feb-2014)
5 - Blood, Salt, Water (Dec-2015)
6 - The Long Drop (May-2017)

Anna and Fin

1 - Conviction (Jun-2019)
2 - Confidence (Jul-2022)

Garnethill

1 - Garnethill (Apr-1999)
2 - Exile (Apr-2001)
3 - Resolution (May-2002)

Paddy Meehan

1 - Field of Blood (Jun-2005)
2 - The Dead Hour (Jul-2006)
3 - The Last Breath // Slip of the Knife (Sep-2007)

A Philip Marlowe Novel

1 - The Second Murderer (Aug-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

23 - Every Seven Years (Dec-2015)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Garnethill

    Garnethill - 1

    Maureen O'Donnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of her living room and herself a prime suspect in a murder case.Desperate to clear her name and to get at the truth, Maureen traces rumors about a similar m...

  • Exile

    Garnethill - 2

    Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the Thames tw...

  • Resolution

    Garnethill - 3

    Irresistibly blending suspense, mystery, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Resolution provides a wrenching conclusion to Denise Mina's universally acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. Life has gotten no easier for Maureen O'Donnell since the events in...

  • Sanctum

    A respected forensic psychiatrist is convicted of the gruesome murder of a serial killer ... but is she innocent?When Dr Susie Harriot is convicted of the brutal murder of Andrew Gow, a serial killer in her care, it looks certain that she will be giv...

  • Two Deaths and a Mouthful of Worms

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • Deception

    Even as he watches her being led to jail in handcuffs, Lachlan Harriot refuses to believe his wife, Susie, is guilty of murder. Yes, as his court-appointed psychologist, Susie worked closely with Andrew Gow, the paroled serial killer. And yes, she wa...

  • Field of Blood

    Paddy Meehan - 1

    The murder of three-year-old Brian Wilcox is the saddest story to hit the newspaper in years. Even Paddy Meehan, the new copygirl at the Scottish Daily News, feels the tremors it sends through the jaded newsroom. It's the kind of once-in-a-generation...

  • The Dead Hour

    Paddy Meehan - 2

    Responding to a late night-call, Paddy Meehan arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde with blood running from her mouth answers the door. She has already convinced the police to leave and soon Paddy realizes how--she slips 50 bucks into Padd...

  • John Constantine Hellblazer: Empathy Is The Enemy

    After innocently using incantation, an ordinary man turns to Constantine for help, but when an infamous Scottish occultist gets involved, Constantine soon discovers he has been cursed with empathy for his fellow man and realizes that the nightmare ha...



  • The Last Breath // Slip of the Knife

    Paddy Meehan - 3

    Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. He's been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an ...

  • Still Midnight

    Alex Morrow - 1

    Alex Morrow is not new to the police force-or to crime-but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man ...

  • A Sickness in the Family

    Meet the Ushers. The parents, Ted and Biddy. Grandma Martha. The three kids, William, Amy and Sam. Just a normal, middle-class family gathered around the table on Christmas Day. Until they start dying. Violent deaths. One by one. Is there a curse on ...

  • The End of the Wasp Season

    Alex Morrow - 2

    When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy sub...

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 1

    DC Comics/Vertigo will publish the official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," starting in Fall 2012 with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, the international publishing phenomenon. Each book in the "Millennium Trilogy" w...

  • Gods and Beasts

    Alex Morrow - 3

    It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the d...

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 2

    Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. Years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to inv...

  • The Red Road

    Alex Morrow - 4

    Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant new thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions! Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks amo...

  • IDP: 2043

    An environmentally-themed graphic novel brings together a dream-team of European artists and writers -- including Denise Mina and Irvine Welsh -- to imagine Scotland in 30 years

    A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh ...

  • The Girl Who Played with Fire

    In this graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larrson's THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its...



  • The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

    In this final graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's international bestseller, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more wa...

  • Blood, Salt, Water

    Alex Morrow - 5

    Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town. For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance foot...

  • Every Seven Years

    Bibliomysteries - 23

    Elsa finds a book with strange powers and must face her tortured past. It’s been seven years since Else visited her tiny hometown on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. After years of suffering bullying at the hands of the few other resid...

  • The Long Drop

    Alex Morrow - 6

    The truth is the most complicated fiction of all. William Watt's wife, daughter, and sister-in-law are dead, slaughtered in their own home in a brutal crime that scandalized Glasgow. Despite an ironclad alibi, police zero in on Watt as the primary...

  • An Invisible Minus Sign

    in Deadly Housewives

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 19: Red Right Hand

    The human race is a vast herd�one that John Constantine separated himself from a long time ago. The lonely path he�s taken since then hasn�t been an easy one, but in the end it�s probably been for the best. Given his notoriety as England�s ...

  • Conviction

    Anna and Fin - 1

    A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies...

  • The Less Dead

    In the new, shockingly current thriller by Denise Mina, solving one mystery leads to another: Margot finally learns her birth mother's identity, only to discover that the woman's murderer is still at large -- and sending threatening letters. ...

  • Rizzio

    From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history -- the bloody assassination of David Rizzo  private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen’s...

  • Confidence

    Anna and Fin - 2

    In this "edge-of-your-seat" thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club pick Conviction (The Los Angeles Times), Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe -- and another r...



  • The Second Murderer

    A Philip Marlowe Novel - 1

    Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress -- and up against a rival PI -- in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreat...

  • Three Fires

    From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities,” a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century -- inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savo...

  • The Good Liar

    In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case leads a forensic scientist to an impossible choice: Would you still do the right thing if you knew it would cost everything you loved? Doctor C...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Denise Mina has published 32 books.

The next book by Denise Mina, The Good Liar, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Denise Mina, Garnethill, was published in April 1999.

Yes. Denise Mina has 5 series.
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