Still Midnight

Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Her family moved twenty one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook.At twenty one she passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde, teaching criminology and criminal law in the meantime. Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a novel, 'Garnethill' when she was supposed to be studying instead. 'Garnethill' won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by 'Exile' and 'Resolution'. She also writes comics and wrote In 2006 her first play, 'Ida Tamson' . As well as all of this she writes short stories published various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4, contributes to TV and radio as a big red face at the corner of the sofa who interjects occasionally, is writing a film adaptation of Ida Tamson and has a number of other projects on the go.