Denise appeared at PBF2017 and we have been eager to bring her back ever since
After a peripatetic childhood in Glasgow, Paris, London, Invergordon, Bergen and Perth, Denise left school early and worked in a number of dead-end jobs, all of them badly, before studying at night school to get into Glasgow University Law School.
Denise went on to study for a PhD at Strathclyde, misusing her student grant to write her first novel. This was Garnethill, which won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel.
She has published 14 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels. She has been inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame; won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice, and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year twice
Denise presents TV and radio programmes and appears regularly in the media.
She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad, leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction 2014.
Given Denise’s legal background we should clarify that her books are nothing but the truth.
