Denise Mina Books in Order

Maureen O’Donnell, a survivor of abuse and a recent psychiatric patient, wakes up after a blackout to find her therapist boyfriend tied to a chair with his throat cut. Branded the prime suspect, she dives into Glasgow’s shadows to clear her name.

Trying to rebuild her life in a Glasgow women’s shelter, Maureen O’Donnell is shaken when a battered resident turns up murdered and dumped in the river. Convinced the wrong man is being blamed, she follows a grim trail from hostels to London backstreets.

The second annual anthology of mystery and suspense fiction selects established and emerging writers from American and international publications. Alongside the stories, it contains year-end reports on crime writing and fandom, plus coverage of the 2000 short-story Edgar Awards.

Facing a looming tax bill, a traumatic court case and the return of her abuser, Maureen O’Donnell is drawn into another killing when an elderly market trader known as Home Gran dies after a savage beating. Finding the truth may cost her what stability she has left.

When celebrated forensic psychiatrist Susie Harriot is jailed for murdering a serial killer in her care, her husband Lachlan refuses to believe it. Night after night he combs her case files, only to uncover disturbing secrets about the woman he thought he knew.

Glasgow, 1981. Eighteen-year-old copygirl Paddy Meehan dreams of being a reporter when a toddler is murdered and two local boys are accused, including her fiancé’s young cousin. Defying family and newsroom, she chases a truth nobody else wants to see.

Fourteen newly written mystery stories examine the volatile underside of domestic life, from troubled marriages and in-laws to jealousies, friendships, children, and thwarted ambitions. Denise Mina contributes “An Invisible Minus Sign” to this collection of darkly comic and unsettling crime fiction.

Ordinary bloke Chris Cole plays with a “harmless” spell and unleashes something he can’t control, dragging occult fixer John Constantine into the mess. Cursed with overwhelming empathy, Constantine follows a trail to a Scottish cult whose magic turns compassion lethal.

On the night-shift crime beat, young reporter Paddy Meehan watches police walk away from a bloody “domestic” after money changes hands—and takes a bribe herself. When the woman is found murdered next day, Paddy risks career and life to expose the cover-up.

By 1990, Paddy Meehan has a flat, a column and a fragile sense of security—until her former lover, war reporter Terry Patterson, is found executed and leaves her his house and notebooks. Chasing the story, she stumbles into dangerous political secrets.

Picking up after Empathy is the Enemy, John Constantine returns to a haunted Glasgow where a wave of suicides and an enigmatic preacher suggest his last case went terribly wrong. To stop the killing, he must face the fallout of his own magic.

Ten specially commissioned crime stories set in Edinburgh bring together writers including Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin. The anthology ranges across police procedural, historical mystery, comedy, and supernatural suspense, with an introduction by Irvine Welsh.

Armed men burst into a Glasgow family’s home, shoot a daughter and abduct the aging shopkeeper, demanding a ransom that makes no sense. DS Alex Morrow must untangle secrets of identity, loyalty and prejudice before the hostage is lost.

In a once-grand London townhouse, the Usher family’s Christmas dinner curdles into horror as relatives begin dying one by one. Is their home cursed by old witchcraft, or is someone in this bitter, greedy clan killing for control of the estate?

Heavily pregnant DS Alex Morrow is called to a grotesque murder scene in an affluent Glasgow suburb just as a disgraced banker hangs himself in Kent. As she links the two families, buried rage and financial ruin twist into something even darker.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this annual collection gathers British crime and mystery stories by established names and newer voices. The selections range from noir and hard-boiled tales to ingenious puzzle plots and amateur-sleuth fiction, including work by Denise Mina and Simon Kernick.

At a busy Glasgow post office, a grandfather calmly helps a gunman empty the tills before being cut down by bullets. As DS Alex Morrow hunts his killer, crooked politicians and compromised cops expose who really profits from the city’s pain.

This first graphic-novel volume adapts the opening of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, pairing journalist Mikael Blomkvist with hacker Lisbeth Salander as they begin investigating the decades-old disappearance of heiress Harriet Vanger on a remote Swedish island.

Testifying against a brutal arms dealer, DI Alex Morrow is pulled into a new case when a young businessman is found dead. Evidence points back to the night Princess Diana died and to a teenage girl who once sat in a car with a corpse and a gun.

In a flooded 2043, reality-show host Cait McNeil is the token outsider on a luxury vertical farm owned by the global elite. When the engineered animals turn violent and her boyfriend is murdered, she must expose a conspiracy that treats poor lives as expendable.

Set during the Depression, this short crime tale follows Vasili, a young Greek immigrant bussing tables in Washington, who gets pulled into a Pinkerton agent's ruthless campaign against union organizers and must decide what justice looks like in his adopted city.

DI Alex Morrow has been watching glamorous Roxanna Fuentecilla for signs of money laundering when the woman vanishes. The trail leads to the seaside town of Helensburgh, where respectable façades hide drugs, violence and a body rising from dark water.

After years away, Elsa returns to the isolated Scottish island where school bullies made her life hell. When her old tormentor presses a mysterious book back into her hands, buried cruelties resurface and the line between memory, magic and revenge begins to blur.

Picking up after The Girl Who Played with Fire, this graphic novel finds Lisbeth Salander in intensive care, then on trial for multiple murders while a secret security faction tries to silence her. With Mikael Blomkvist’s help, she turns the tables in court.

In 1950s Glasgow, businessman William Watt’s family has been slaughtered and he’s still the prime suspect. Desperate, he spends one long winter night drinking with petty criminal Peter Manuel—later charged as Scotland’s worst serial killer—trying to pry loose the truth.

Anna McDonald’s comfortable Glasgow life implodes when her husband runs off with her best friend and an old scandal resurfaces. Clinging to a true-crime podcast about a sunken yacht, she recognises one victim and, with washed-up musician Fin, races across Europe to prove what really happened.

In this chilling short piece, well-meaning parents slowly realise their clever, difficult child has done something unspeakable. As guilt and denial war with fear, the story edges toward a reckoning that raises uncomfortable questions about love, responsibility and vengeance.

A compact crime tale that turns an everyday chore into something ominous. As tension builds inside one household, resentment and guilt spill over, and a seemingly routine bit of washing becomes the backdrop to a small but devastating act of violence.

Glasgow doctor Margo Dunlop discovers her birth mother was a teenage sex worker murdered years ago and written off as one of “the less dead”. Teaming up with her abrasive Aunt Nikki, she digs into a cold case that still has a vindictive killer attached.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this retrospective brings together nineteen short stories that won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Awards. The collection ranges from serial killers and hostage crises to fraud and detective work, and includes stories by Denise Mina, Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, and John Connolly.

This tense historical novella reconstructs the 1566 night when David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, was dragged from her chamber and stabbed dozens of times. Court gossip, religious fury and personal betrayal collide in a single bloody evening.

Trying to force a blended family holiday, true-crime podcaster Anna McDonald watches it implode, then bolts with sidekick Fin when a YouTube urban explorer disappears. Chasing a stolen religious relic across Europe, they find cults, con artists and danger closing in again.

In 1940s Los Angeles, private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by a dying millionaire to find missing heiress Chrissie Montgomery. Sharing the hunt with rival detective Anne Riordan, he wades through Beverly Hills wealth, skid-row dives and a hotel corpse to learn why Chrissie ran.

Three Fires reimagines the rise and fall of fifteenth-century friar Girolamo Savonarola, whose fiery sermons against luxury led to Florence’s Bonfire of the Vanities. As his moral crusade curdles into fanaticism, the book quietly echoes modern culture-war battles over power and belief.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this anthology assembles twenty-four original crime and suspense stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock. Established and emerging writers reinterpret the moods, twists, and memorable premises associated with films such as Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds.

Blood-spatter scientist Professor Claudia O’Sheil built her stellar career on a revolutionary forensic tool and a notorious double-murder case. On the eve of a prestige lecture, new evidence convinces her she helped convict the wrong man—and exposing the lie could destroy her life.