Val McDermid

The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...

For most of the month of January 2018, crime-writer Val McDermid , under the auspices of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, created a city-wide project called New Year's Resurrection consisting of scenes, at twelve sites...

With many others including Charlotte Bingham , Edwina Currie , Helen Dunmore , Nicci Gerrard , Wendy Holden , David Lodge , Val McDermid , Joanna Trollope , Lynne Truss , and Salley Vickers ,...

Some commentators, like Joan Smith and Val McDermid , feel that her consummate artistry was insufficiently appreciated, either because of her gender, or her prolific output, or because she is typecast as a writer of...

Later crime writer Val McDermid discovered this novel, her first by Tey, as a revelation: modern, nuanced, unformulaic, it was unlike its contemporaries but in tune with some successors, like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell