- Published: 3 March 2020
- ISBN: 9781784704865
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $22.99
Conviction
THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

















- Published: 3 March 2020
- ISBN: 9781784704865
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $22.99
Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty
Val McDermid
A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction
Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID/SHE SAID
Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once: a fabulous, captivating novel
Nicci French
Gripping, intricate and wonderfully twisty . . . Superb
Will Dean, author of <i>Dark Pines</i>
One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years . . . Conviction is her finest work to date: a dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell
A. J. Finn, author of <i>The Woman in the Window</i>
Such a delight: playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive
Ann Cleeves
With sophisticated, ingenious plotting, this is a real read-in-one-go book. If you haven’t yet discovered Denise Mina, you’re in for a treat!
Good Housekeeping
Conviction is one of those rare and perfect titles, meaning both a belief profoundly held and to have been found guilty. The genius of the novel is that it reiterates that old phrase that a wise man once said – "the truth will set you free" – and it does so via fiction
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Grimly hilarious, emotional and addictive, it ends with a barmy didn’t-see-that-coming denouement
UK Press Syndication
A thoroughly modern tale of sexual and financial predation and social media… compelling
Laura Wilson, Guardian
A mischievous sense of fun exists alongside a capacity to generate genuine edge-of-your-seat thrills and some thought-provoking moments. You won’t have more fun with a book this year
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express
It is clear from the very start of Denise Mina’s 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
Alison Flood, Observer
Mina…pulls it off with her customary flair and a final flourish
Alastair Mabbott, Herald
A wildly entertaining one-off
John Williams, Mail on Sunday
A gripping plot and compelling characters
Stephen McGinty, Sunday Times
Darkly comic with an intricate plot, it’s a thrilling adventure with a really rather fabulous heroine
Deirdre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror
[Conviction] is almost impossible to put down
Sarah Hughes
A whip-smart and galloping read
Susan Swarbrick, Herald, *Summer Reads of 2019*
Endlessly surprising... This incredible novel...seems to have been written in a white-hot rage.... Mina has always written with a head full of ideas and a mouth full of tough talk. Here, she’s finally got a story big enough to hold it all together.
New York Times
The funniest crime novel of the year sees the unstoppable Mina tackling #MeToo with an acerbic eye
Sarah Hughes, i, *Summer reads of 2019*
An original idea carried out well. Mina’s storytelling is always vivid and exciting, and Anna is a complex, well-rounded figure
Jeff Noon, Spectator
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*
Denise Mina is always brilliant, but Conviction is I think her best yet – joyously dark, comic, loads of fun
Alison Flood, Observer, *Books of the Year*
Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions
Ian Rankin
A pitch-perfect comic thriller
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express, *Books of the Year*
You won't be able to put Conviction down
Reese Witherspoon
Denise Mina gets to the heart of what crime really is. You feel like you are right there, in all the dark nooks and crannies that her characters inhabit
Sunday Times and International Bestselling Author, Karin Slaughter
Mina's novels are engrossing, deeply rooted in reality and astutely perceptive about human nature
Daily Express
Powerful, passionate and compelling. Mina can chill your blood and break your heart in the same sentence
Mark Billingham
Why do Scottish writers dominate British crime fiction? With Denise Mina at least, the answer is pure class
Daily Telegraph
A wonderfully punchy evocation of a legendary murder mystery, packed with the authentic sights, sounds and intrigues of Glasgow in the late Fifties.
Robert Goddard
I’ve been a fan of Ms Mina for a while, but The Long Drop has to be my favourite. The writing is beautiful and more than once I found myself having to pause, just to take in the sheer elegance of the prose. It’s an absolute gem of a book.
Abir Mukherjee
The Long Drop is an exceptional book. The pages reek of fifties Glasgow, forming an oppressive backdrop to a true crime story that fascinates and appals from start to finish. Mina’s prose cuts to the bone, laying bare the prideful wickedness of men in a tale that is as often touching as it is frightening. A feast of a crime novel.
Stuart Neville
[I] was gripped, impressed by her insight into the mind of a psychopath… A grim novel, but a very good one.
Allan Massie, Yorkshire Post, 2017 Books of the Year
[An] extraordinary story of a 1950s Glasgow murder mystery.
Guardian, 2017 Books of the Year
[O]ne of crime fiction’s most acute observers of contemporary society.
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express, 2017 Books of the Year
A wonderfully atmospheric, unsettling read.
Louise Rhind-Tutt
A relentlessly tense and exciting read, every page oozes menace and its core of truth makes it all the more unsettling.
Sunday Mirror
The Long Drop is not just a success and a thrilling read in its own right, but a game-changer for the genre.
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Deliciously shadowy.
Claire Allfree, Metro
It is a beautifully written book, a masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain’s finest living crime novelist
Daily Telegraph
Deeply unsettling and thought provoking in all the best ways
Doug Johnstone, Big Issue
The Long Drop is a fascinating, quietly insidious work, unsettling but absorbing
Marcel Berlins, The Times
Not a single word is wasted in this beautifully written novel. Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good, it is possibly Mina’s finest achievement
Daily Express
The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling, evocative and compelling novel
Laura James, AGA Magazine
Dark, gritty and chilling, it is steeped in the atmosphere and mores of Glasgow in the 1950s
Choice
Remarkable… It often seems as if Mina has freed herself from most of the strictures of the thriller format in order to explore altogether more literary territory. It is a pleasure to accompany her. The writing is frequently arresting
James O'Brien, Times Literary Supplement
Charismatic, grimy masterpiece
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
Bleak and atmospheric
Harriet Lane, Observer