Conviction: A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

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I’ve just written a five-part series about Savonarola that’s gonna be on BBC Radio 4 and then it’s coming out as a book in about six months. Savonarola basically took over Florence in the 1490s. He built the [original] Bonfire of the Vanities. (Where the Florentines burned all their secular possessions.) Denise Mina: Lots of people say to me: will you write more Scottish history? But Rizzio was part of a series of books about Scottish history by different writers. And I was the first one. I couldn’t just start writing my own series! 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

Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions Ian RankinTo date, the entirety of Mina's work in comics has been published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint: 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*

Conviction is a wholly different type of novel in the suspense genre. My favorite parts of this book are the interactions between the characters (Anna, Fin and another character named Adam) v. the chapters featuring the actual podcasts (which I think are on the slower side). What I find intriguing is how the author, Denise Mina, intertwines the storylines – which at first, seem quite impossible and then, well, are absolutely seamless.A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction" -- Erin Kelly Conviction as a whole put me in mind of the Latin “Post Hoc, Ergo, Propter Hoc” – After, Therefore, Because of it – events and connections all underneath it all. I loved it because it challenged me, I really didn’t know where it was going to end up. On the 19th of September 1956 Peter Manuel broke into a suburban villa in Glasgow and shot three women in their beds. Then he made himself a ham sandwich. 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 The Woman in the Window

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 * After a peripatetic childhood – her father worked as an engineer across Europe – Mina left school at 16. “I couldn’t read until I was about nine; I was a very late developer and I still can’t spell,” she says. “I don’t think it’s about whether you were a born writer but whether you get a buzz off writing.”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 intese, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell" -- A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window This is a murder she can’t ignore, and she throws herself into investigating the case. But little does she know, her past and present lives are about to collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall. O]ne of crime fiction’s most acute observers of contemporary society. Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express, 2017 Books of the Year The use of social media is also very cleverly interwoven into Anna’s exposure but also as a means to find out what happened on the Dana - the subject of the podcast Anna initially listens to at home.