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Val McDermid


Scotland (b.1955)

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester.
 

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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Queen Macbeth
(Darkland Tales)
October 2024

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Silent Bones
(Karen Pirie, book 8)
Series
Lindsay Gordon
   1. Report for Murder (1987)
   2. Common Murder (1989)
   3. Final Edition (1991)
     aka Open And Shut / Deadline for Murder
   4. Union Jack (1993)

     aka Conferences Are Murder

   5. Booked For Murder (1996)
   6. Hostage to Murder (2003)
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Kate Brannigan
   1. Dead Beat (1992)
   2. Kick Back (1993)
   3. Crack Down (1994)
   4. Clean Break (1995)
   5. Blue Genes (1996)
   6. Star Struck (1998)
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
   1. The Mermaids Singing (1995)
   2. The Wire In The Blood (1997)
   3. The Last Temptation (2002)
   4. The Torment of Others (2004)
   5. Beneath the Bleeding (2007)
   6. Fever of the Bone (2009)
   7. The Retribution (2011)
   8. Cross and Burn (2013)
   9. Splinter the Silence (2015)
   10. Insidious Intent (2017)
   11. How the Dead Speak (2019)
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Karen Pirie
   1. The Distant Echo (2003)
   2. A Darker Domain (2008)
   3. The Skeleton Road (2014)
   4. Out of Bounds (2016)
   5. Broken Ground (2018)
   6. Still Life (2020)
   7. Past Lying (2023)
   8. Silent Bones (2024)
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Allie Burns
   1. 1979 (2021)
   2. 1989 (2022)
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Novels
   A Place of Execution (1999)
   Killing The Shadows (2000)
   Naked Came the Phoenix (2001) (with others)
   The Grave Tattoo (2006)
   Trick of the Dark (2010)
   The Vanishing Point (2012)
   Inherit the Dead (2013) (with others)
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Collections
   The Writing on the Wall (1997)
   Stranded (2004)
   Magnetic North (2005) (with others)
   Cross Roads (2013)
   Gunpowder Plots (2013)
   Christmas is Murder (2020)
   Marple (2022) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Ghost Writer (2013)
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Series contributed to
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Picture Books show
 
Graphic Novels show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Val McDermid recommends
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What Doesn't Kill Us (2024)
Ajay Close
"Vivid and visceral."
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Strange Sally Diamond (2023)
Liz Nugent
"It's compassionate and challenging, letting us imagine the lives that are forgotten when the news cycle moves on . . . a very special book."
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Now She Is Witch (2023)
Kirsty Logan
"Myth-making at its best."

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Books containing stories by Val McDermid
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Exit Wounds (2019)
Nineteen Tales of Mystery from the Modern Masters of Crime
edited by
Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan
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Murder On Christmas Eve (2017)
(Vintage Murders, book 2)
edited by
Cecily Gayford

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Awards
1994 Dagger Award for Best Book (nominee) : Crack Down
1995 Dagger Award for Best Novel : The Mermaids Singing
1999 Dagger Award for Best Book (nominee) : A Place of Execution
2000 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel : A Place of Execution
2001 Anthony Award for Best Novel : A Place of Execution
2001 Dilys Award for Best Book : A Place of Execution
2001 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Place of Execution
2001 Macavity Award for Best Novel : A Place of Execution
2004 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel : The Distant Echo
2004 Dagger Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Torment of Others
2008 BCA Crime Thriller of the Year for Best Novel (nominee) : The Grave Tattoo
2011 Barry Award for Best Paperback Novel : Fever of the Bone
2016 McIlvanney Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Splinter the Silence
2017 McIlvanney Prize for Best Novel (nominee) : Out of Bounds
2022 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : 1979


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