Denise Mina

Denise Mina’s first novel, Garnethill, was published in 1998, and won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel.

She now has 12 novels published and in 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame. Denise presents TV and radio programmes as well as regularly appearing in the media.

Denise Mina comes to Irvine to talk about Blood Salt Water, her crime novel set in Helensburgh. She is coming to explain why she set it in Helensburgh… – and not Irvine.