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Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
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 TV. It’s unexpected twists, its growing suspense, its intelligence and dark compulsion can never truly be captured on the small screen. You’ve got to read it.
Comparisons: Karin Slaughter, Mo Hayder, Tess Gerritsen.
Similar this month: Hilary Bonner, Kathy Reichs.
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The Torment of Others Synopsis
For some, there is nothing so sweet, so thrilling, as the torment of others …
A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one Derek Tyler. But Tyler's been locked up in a mental institution for two years, barely speaking a word - except to say that 'the Voice' told him to do it.
Top criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable - this is not a copycat murder but something much stranger. While DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate and dangerous undercover police operation to trap the murderer, Hill heads towards a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered...
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‘One of McDermid's finest, which is saying a lot' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Val McDermid is an intelligent, supremely talented novelist and with this latest tale, she is writing at the height of her power’ Allan Laing, Glasgow Herald
'Complex, combative and nuanced' Barry Forshaw, Express
'Val McDermid, as ever, is adept at engendering irresistible suspense' Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
‘There are some terrific twists: just as the reader feels something has been securely settled, that we can identify a perpetrator to our satisfaction, McDermid gives a new jerk to the storyline and the chase is on again' Jane Jakeman, Scotland on Sunday
‘No one compares to McDermid when it comes to the deviant side of human nature’ Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
‘This is McDermid on top form - pass the valium’ Daily Mail
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About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many aw ards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and w as the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.
In 2016 Val was awarded the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award. McDermid said: “It's an honour and a thrill to receive this award. The community of writers and readers at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is unlike any other in its warmth and generosity and so this means a huge amount to me. This year sees the publication of my 30th novel and I can't think of a better way to celebrate that.”
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."
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