Excerpt from Conviction by Denise Mina, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Oh yes: ponderous tone, secrets, murders, it had everything. And the case had happened while my girls were small, a time of little jumpers and waiting outside school, standing silently with the timeless phalanx of mothers, absent from the wider world. I didn't know anything about this murder case.

I poured a big mug of coffee, sat down, put my phone on the kitchen table in front of me and pressed play. I expected an absorbing, high-stakes story.

I had no idea I was about to meet Leon Parker again.

Excerpted from the book Conviction by Denise Mina. Copyright © 2019 by Denise MIna. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company. All rights reserved.