She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. Because of her father’s job as an engineer, the family followed the north sea oil boom of the seventies around Europe, moving twenty one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family’s power of damage-and redemption.ĭenise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. It’s a web that will spiral through Alex’s own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack.
Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.
In The End of the Wasp Season, when a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. Stay tuned for our upcoming review of her new book The End of the Wasp Season. In this video, the Best Selling author talks about a typical day of work. We recently reviewed Still Midnight by this author here. She has also dabbled in comic book writing, having recently written 13 issues of Hellblazer.
She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia “Paddy” Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Denise Mina (born 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright.
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