In Denise Mina's first book, Garnethill, we first meet Maureen O'Donnell, who wakes up to find her former therapist, with whom she's having an affair, bound to a chair in her living room with his throat slit.
John Creasey Dagger Award for Garnethillīeginners luck or no (Mina says she sent her manuscript blindly to the first three literary agents she found in directory assistance), the debut won the John Creasy Dagger award for the best first crime novel. So, “misusing her grant,” she says, Mina played hooky from her studies and wrote Garnethill, the first work in the Garnethill trilogy. But all the while, she had a bug to write a novel. She was teaching criminology and criminal law and researching a dissertation on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders. Garnethill Trilogyīorn in Glasgow in 1966, Denise Mina was working on a law degree at Glasgow University. Even she's not sure that she's not guilty of the crime she ends up investigating. But inside, she's full of fluttering doubts about her sanity. Maureen O'Donnell, the centre of the Garnett Hill trilogy, displays a glacier-like nerve to the outside world. Despite unfavourable odds, they’re spirited and complex not at all the cardboard cliches you often find in hardboiled crime fiction. And with decaying council flats, drug abuse and sexploitation, corrupt law enforcement and the steely banks of the Clyde River as a backdrop, her dramas are chilling.īut what draws me to Mina is her choice of female protagonists.
Mina depicts vividly the seedy side of human nature-showing you more than you probably want to see.
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