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  • Published: 27 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529111811
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

Confidence

The NEW page-turning thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Conviction




Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. A brand new escapist thriller from the award-winning author of Conviction

*FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR*

'Such a delight: playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves
'Denise Mina is crime writing royalty' Val McDermid
'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions' Ian Rankin

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When filmmaker, Lisa Lee, goes missing alongside a priceless Roman silver casket, there is no doubt the two are linked together.

The day after her vanishing, the casket is listed for auction in Paris with a reserve price of fifty million euros.

On a thrilling chase across Europe to discover what happened to Lisa, journalists Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry.

Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.

  • Published: 27 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529111811
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Denise Mina

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 as well as the Gordon Burn Prize and was named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade. Conviction was the co-winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2019 and 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.

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Praise for Confidence

Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions

Ian Rankin

Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once

Nicci French

Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty

Val McDermid

One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years

A. J. Finn

Mina's storytelling is always vivid and exciting, and Anna is a complex, well-rounded figure

Spectator

Outrageously enjoyable. A rollicking mystery populated by unforgettable characters - like Indiana Jones on acid.

Ambrose Parry on CONFIDENCE

A fun, thrilling and perfectly plotted adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat

Laure Van Rensburg on CONFIDENCE

Riveting, fast-paced

Sunday Times

[It is Mina's] sulphurous wit that makes her books a joy to read

Daily Telegraph

Denise Mina is amazing and Confidence is just a delight; poignant, heartbreaking, dark and hilarious. I so want to be part of the gang with Anna, Fin, Bram, and Marcos as they charge across Europe. Such a perfect and thrilling adventure!

G.R. Halliday

A real pacy thriller

i

A playful novel, written with energy, inventiveness and glee

Scotsman

Intriguing, touching, often very funny and full of ideas

Literary Review

A cinematic thriller... Hitchcockian

The Times

The excellent Denise Mina's latest is an irresistible thriller... A considerably sassier and much funnier alternative to The Da Vinci Code and its kind

Mail on Sunday

The sequel to the joyously funny Conviction... although there's a laugh on nearly every page, it's not short on thrills

Daily Express

A playful novel, written with energy, inventiveness and glee

Scotsman, *Books of the Year*

This romp unfolds as a glorious spoof of The Da Vinci Code but it's not short on thrills

Sunday Express
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