Denise Mina
@damedenisemina.bsky.social
Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Hating these ancestry DNA TC podcasts with 55 minutes of ‘was it the husband’ and 5 mins of some bland rando no one even mentioned before.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Hating these ancestry DNA TC podcasts with 55 minutes of ‘was it the husband’ and 5 mins of some bland rando no one even mentioned before.
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I get why they’re Fast, I’m less clear on why they are Furious
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I get why they’re Fast, I’m less clear on why they are Furious
“Laidlaw is the melancholy heir to Marlowe. Reads like a breathless scalpel cut through the bloody heart of a city’ – @damedenisemina.bsky.social
William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with @russeldmclean.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction 💙📚
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William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013, in conversation with @russeldmclean.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction 💙📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K879...
William McIlvanney at Dundee Literary Festival 2013
YouTube video by literary dundee
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November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Chuffed to bits to see ‘The Good Liar’ on this list🥳
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Chuffed to bits to see ‘The Good Liar’ on this list🥳
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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I'm honoured to donate to the Creatives for Sudan auction, raising money for people fleeing genocide in El-Fasher.
You can bid on a signed copy of David Lynch: His Work, His World along with literally tons of other amazing prizes. Get bidding!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#creatives4sudan
You can bid on a signed copy of David Lynch: His Work, His World along with literally tons of other amazing prizes. Get bidding!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#creatives4sudan
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'm honoured to donate to the Creatives for Sudan auction, raising money for people fleeing genocide in El-Fasher.
You can bid on a signed copy of David Lynch: His Work, His World along with literally tons of other amazing prizes. Get bidding!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#creatives4sudan
You can bid on a signed copy of David Lynch: His Work, His World along with literally tons of other amazing prizes. Get bidding!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#creatives4sudan
They approach the practice of law like first year student forgetting that adamance is no counter to being completely and utterly wrong
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
They approach the practice of law like first year student forgetting that adamance is no counter to being completely and utterly wrong
Strathyre to Killin on the Rob Roy Way
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Strathyre to Killin on the Rob Roy Way
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
We have an EV and I am a charger bore but the infrastructure is TERRIBLE.
Last night a 2 hr journey turned into 6: drove to 3 different broken fast chargers, 2 others solo but in use, had to use 2 slow ones. Ended up in an empty Tescos car park at midnight, standing in sleet.
Last night a 2 hr journey turned into 6: drove to 3 different broken fast chargers, 2 others solo but in use, had to use 2 slow ones. Ended up in an empty Tescos car park at midnight, standing in sleet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We have an EV and I am a charger bore but the infrastructure is TERRIBLE.
Last night a 2 hr journey turned into 6: drove to 3 different broken fast chargers, 2 others solo but in use, had to use 2 slow ones. Ended up in an empty Tescos car park at midnight, standing in sleet.
Last night a 2 hr journey turned into 6: drove to 3 different broken fast chargers, 2 others solo but in use, had to use 2 slow ones. Ended up in an empty Tescos car park at midnight, standing in sleet.
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Seconds into the meeting Mamdani bites down on the specially-prepared crown on his tooth releasing the woke mind virus, instally transforming everyone in the room into a socialist.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Seconds into the meeting Mamdani bites down on the specially-prepared crown on his tooth releasing the woke mind virus, instally transforming everyone in the room into a socialist.
I didn’t know her but I love her too now:
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
‘Her amazing smile was undimmed, and I would try anything to summon it’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I didn’t know her but I love her too now:
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Bliss for the staunch.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Bliss for the staunch.
Hands up if you were ever a promising mentee who went home and night and sat alone in the dark with your coat on, smoking and trying to convince herself that creepy fucks at work is just how it fucking is ✋
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hands up if you were ever a promising mentee who went home and night and sat alone in the dark with your coat on, smoking and trying to convince herself that creepy fucks at work is just how it fucking is ✋
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Dancin' DJ in da house.
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Dancin' DJ in da house.
Reading this for first time and can’t stop hearing it in Drumph’s whiney bitch voice.
‘Everlasting spite’ indeed
‘Everlasting spite’ indeed
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reading this for first time and can’t stop hearing it in Drumph’s whiney bitch voice.
‘Everlasting spite’ indeed
‘Everlasting spite’ indeed
Super chuffed that The Good Liar is one of the FT’s best books of 2025 www.ft.com/content/6b46...
Best books of 2025: Crime and Thrillers
Barry Forshaw and Adam LeBor select their must-read titles
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November 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Super chuffed that The Good Liar is one of the FT’s best books of 2025 www.ft.com/content/6b46...
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
Derby: gorgeous architecture, lovely people, incredibly English atmosphere of very mild embarrassment.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Derby: gorgeous architecture, lovely people, incredibly English atmosphere of very mild embarrassment.
Naming the Dead in the forecourt of Derby Cathedral
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Naming the Dead in the forecourt of Derby Cathedral
Looking forward to the parodies of these selfie docs in about 3 years time. They’re nauseating
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Looking forward to the parodies of these selfie docs in about 3 years time. They’re nauseating
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Less than two weeks until Marisa and I are at the St Andrew's Book Festival in London. Come and hear us chat to Denise Mina and Allan Gaw about the Ambrose Parry novels so far and what might come next.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Less than two weeks until Marisa and I are at the St Andrew's Book Festival in London. Come and hear us chat to Denise Mina and Allan Gaw about the Ambrose Parry novels so far and what might come next.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...
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Sorry, leg cramp, sorry
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sorry, leg cramp, sorry
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Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"