# The Less Dead

**_THE TIMES_ CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR  
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 COSTA NOVEL AWARD**

**'This is crime writing of the highest order'** _The Times  
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When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.

Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone...

**\*NOMINATED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD\***  
**\*A _DAILY EXPRESS_ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, SELECTED BY LEE CHILD\*  
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**_CONFIDENCE_, THE NEW NOVEL BY DENISE MINA, IS AVAILABLE NOW**  
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**PRAISE FOR _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLING AUTHOR DENISE MINA:**  
'More proof that Denise Mina is Britain's best living crime writer' _Sunday Express_ on _The Less Dead_  
**'Mina is the most compassionate of crime novelists... a dark and heartfelt novel' _Mail on Sunday_ on _The Less Dead_**  
'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions and never fails to deliver' Ian Rankin  
**'You won't be able to put _Conviction_ down' Reese Witherspoon**  
'Unsettling, evocative and staggeringly good' _Daily Express_ on _The Long Drop_  
**'An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow...and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind' _The Times_ on _The Long Drop_: Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade**  
'Denise Mina gets to the heart of what crime really is. You feel like you are right there, in all the dark nooks and crannies that her characters inhabit' _Sunday Times_ and International Bestselling Author, Karin Slaughter  
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## Details

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- **Vendor:** Penguin Random House
- **Type:** Denise Mina

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