Val Mcdermid

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 years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.

McDermid has achieved major success with her series of books featuring criminal profiler, Tony Hill. The first book in the series, The Mermaids Singing, won the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, while the second, The Wire in the Blood, lends its name to the highly acclaimed television series featuring Robson Green as Tony Hill. The third, The Last Temptation, was released this year in paperback and was a Top Ten bestseller. The lastest, The Torment of Others will be out in paperback in 2005.

A Place of Execution was awarded the LA Times Book of the Year Award, while Killing the Shadows received critical acclaim on its release in 2000. May 2003 saw the release of The Distant Echo in hardback.

McDermid has also written six crime novels featuring Manchester PI Kate Brannigan, and the last of these, Star Struck, won the Grand Prix des Romans d’Adventure in France. A further series of novels feature journalist-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, with the latest of these, Hostage to Murder, published in November 2003.

A Darker Domain Val Mcdermid Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 February 2009. McDermid produces yet another gripping, gritty psychological thriller, moving back and forth between the miners strike of the mid 80’s to present day. Two cases with two determined women... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

The Grave Tattoo Val Mcdermid Shortlisted for the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008. Val McDermid's latest riveting crime thriller, The Grave Tattoo is very different to much of her previous work; it is no less riveting... Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 26/02/2007 Lovereading Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)

The Grave Tattoo Val Mcdermid A superb psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the Bounty. Format: Hardback - Released: 06/02/2006 Lovereading Price: £13.49 - Saving £4.50 (25%)

The Torment of Others Val Mcdermid If you have not read Val McDermid you may have caught the ITV series of The Wire in the Blood, starring Dr Tony Hill. This features him too in another complex, baffling psychological thriller which is far better than the... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2005 Lovereading Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)