- Denise Mina's debut on the Little, Brown and Company list, "Deception (8/04), was enthusiastically embraced by mystery lovers--it was an Editor's Pick for the Mystery Guild, a featured alternate in the Doubleday Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club and is in its third printing.- The trade paperback edition of "Deception will be published in 5/05 and include a teaser chapter.- Denise Mina's fiction debut, "Garnethill (Carroll & Gaf 4/99), won the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best first crime novel and "Exile and "Resolution, the novels that completed the Garnethill trilogy, were similarly lauded by critics in the UK and the US.
"As Ms. Mina grippingly reveals the implications of these events, it's clear that she is something more than a crime writer. Like Dennis Lehane with Mystic River, she describes a close-knit, secretive community in a substantial novel that happens to be centered on a crime."-Janet Maslin, New York Times