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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Conviction by Denise Mina, read by Cathleen McCarron.

'A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly


'Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once: a fabulous, captivating novel' Nicci French

From 'the woman who may be Britain’s finest living crime novelist' (Daily Telegraph), Conviction stars a strong female protagonist who is obsessed by true crime podcasts and decides, one day, to investigate one of the unsolved crimes herself.


It’s just a normal morning for Anna McDonald. Gym kits, packed lunches, getting everyone up and ready. Until she opens the front door to her best friend, Estelle. Anna turns to see her own husband at the top of the stairs, suitcase in hand. They’re leaving together and they’re taking Anna’s two daughters with them.

Left alone in the big, dark house, Anna can’t think, she can’t take it in. With her safe, predictable world shattered, she distracts herself with a story: a true-crime podcast. There’s a sunken yacht in the Mediterranean, multiple murders and a hint of power and corruption. Then Anna realises she knew one of the victims in another life. She is convinced she knows what happened. Her past, so carefully hidden until now, will no longer stay silent.

This is a murder she can’t ignore, and she throws herself into investigating the case. But little does she know, her past and present lives are about to collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall.

Conviction is the compelling and unique new thriller from multiple award-winner and author of THE LONG DROP, Denise Mina.

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Critic reviews

Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions
This highly original, ballsy thriller is like nothing you have read – or Denise Mina has written – before (Mark Sanderson)
You won't be able to put Conviction down
It is clear from the very start of Denise Mina’s Conviction quite how much fun she – and her readers – are about to have… Mina is such a classy writer and Anna is a darkly brilliant creation
A twisting, darkly comic, thrill-a-minute ride across Europe. If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction
A mischievous sense of fun exists alongside a capacity to generate genuine edge-of-your-seat thrills and some thought-provoking moments. You won’t have more fun with a book this year
Gripping, intricate and wonderfully twisty . . . Superb
Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once: a fabulous, captivating novel
Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty
One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years . . . Conviction is her finest work to date: a dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell
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I finished this book in record time, wow what a fantastic story! Thank you Denise!

wonderful!

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For the first few hours I felt as though I wanted to give up. Very unlikable characters, very odd story structure.

The characters later developed well although so much so that it felt like a completely different book. I don’t know that the second part was worth plodding through those first hours for.

Okay

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this is my first book by this author and I really enjoy a good thriller, it was an interesting plot but hard to get into and I struggled in the first few chapters. However stick with it as it has a good ending .

I liked the storyline in the end but it was hard to get into at the start.

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Took a while to get going but when it did it was worth it. Has reviewed it was a killing Eve type story full of twists and turns.

Excellent

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Loved the mix of characters and the description of them, engaging plot and plenty of dry wit. Narrator did an awesome job.

Dry wit with a stampede across Europe

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