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Val McDermid

Val McDermid

"The queen of psychological thrillers."

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over seventeen million copies. She has won many awards 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, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011.

In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Visiting Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

Popular Books By Val McDermid

Val McDermid's Top Series

The Kate Brannigan Series

Dead Beat : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 1 - Val McDermid

Dead Beat

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 1

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RRP $22.99

$20.40

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Kick Back : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 2 - Val McDermid

Kick Back

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 2

Paperback

$26.75

Crack Down : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 3 - Val McDermid

Crack Down

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 3

Paperback

$27.75

Star Struck : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 6 - Val McDermid

Star Struck

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 6

Paperback

$26.75

Blue Genes : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 5 - Val McDermid

Blue Genes

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 5

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$26.75

Clean Break : PI Kate Brannigan : Book 4 - Val McDermid

Clean Break

PI Kate Brannigan : Book 4

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$24.75

The Tony Hill & Carol Jordan Series

Fever of the Bone : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 6 - Val McDermid

Fever of the Bone

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 6

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The Mermaids Singing : Tony Hill and Carol Jordan: Book 1 - Val McDermid

The Mermaids Singing

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan: Book 1

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Splinter the Silence : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 9 - Val McDermid

Splinter the Silence

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 9

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Insidious Intent : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 10 - Val McDermid

Insidious Intent

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 10

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How the Dead Speak : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 11 - Val McDermid

How the Dead Speak

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 11

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The Retribution : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 7 - Val McDermid

The Retribution

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 7

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RRP $23.99

$20.40

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The Last Temptation : Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 3 - Val McDermid

The Last Temptation

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan: Book 3

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RRP $22.99

$22.80

The Karen Pirie Thrillers

A Darker Domain : Karen Pirie : Book 2 - Val McDermid

A Darker Domain

Karen Pirie : Book 2

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RRP $22.99

$20.35

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Out of Bounds : Karen Pirie : Book 4 - Val McDermid

Out of Bounds

Karen Pirie : Book 4

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RRP $22.99

$20.35

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The Skeleton Road : Karen Pirie : Book 3 - Val McDermid

The Skeleton Road

Karen Pirie : Book 3

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RRP $22.99

$20.35

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The Distant Echo : Karen Pirie : Book 1 - Val McDermid

The Distant Echo

Karen Pirie : Book 1

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$20.35

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Still Life : Karen Pirie : Book 6 - Val McDermid

Still Life

Karen Pirie : Book 6

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RRP $22.99

$20.35

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Broken Ground : Karen Pirie : Book 5 - Val McDermid

Broken Ground

Karen Pirie : Book 5

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RRP $34.99

$28.50

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