Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 June 2010.
Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
CWA Hall of Fame Dagger 2009.
This award winning author thrills us again with the story of a serial killer stalking his victims through a social networking site. Chilling and nail biting stuff.
Synopsis
The Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're exposed.' Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign that's targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Struggling with the newly-awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet.
Reviews
'So gripping that it puts your life on hold' The Times
'She
is the real mistress of psychological gripping thrillers; no-one can
plot or tell a story like she can. The hairs on my neck literally stood
up' Jenni Murray, Daily Express
'McDermid remains
unrivalled at yoking chilling scenarios to a pulsing narrative; and
Hill's torment is palpable in this scary, dark thriller. Brilliant' Observer
'Everything a great detective novel should be: pacy, gripping, clever and stylish and, most of all, a fantastic read' Sunday Express
'Another cracker in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series from the most imaginative creator of serial killers we have' Daily Mail
About the Author
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.
In 2010 she received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. Margaret Murphy, then chair of the CWA, said: "The
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger award acknowledges the work of an author who
has made an outstanding contribution to the genre. Val McDermid is a
worthy winner whose work has entertained and thrilled millions of
readers as well as many more who have enjoyed the TV adaptations her
books have inspired."
McDermid has achieved major success with her series of books featuring criminal profiler, Dr 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 Last Temptation was a Top Ten bestseller. The Torment of Others came out in paperback in 2005. Beneath the Bleeding came out in summer 2007 and went straight into the Top Ten.
A Place of Execution was awarded the LA Times Book of the Year Award, and has gone onto become the most nominated award-winning thriller in the USA since 2000. Killing the Shadows received critical acclaim on its release in 2000. 'The Grave Tattoo' was published in 2006 in hardback and stayed in the Top Ten for over a month. 'A Darker Domain' is due for publication in 2008.
A Place of Execution was adapted into a successful ITV drama with Juliet Stephenson. Val McDermid is also a regular contributor to Radio 4, where she recently presented the series From Ban to Booker and was recently awarded Stonewall's Writer of the Year.
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 featured journalist-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, with the latest of these, Hostage to Murder, published in November 2003.
She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009.
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