Val McDermid

Author profile

born

June 04, 1955 in Fife, Scotland, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.valmcdermid.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

influences

Reginald Hill, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell and James Lee Burke

About this author

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Val McDermid was born and schooled on the east coast of Scotland and then Oxford Universtiy after which she became a journalist.

Her first book, Report for Murder was published in 1987 and since then she has gone on to have 25 more books published.

She lives in Manchester and Northumberland with 3 cats.

Series:
* Tony Hill & Carol Jordan
* Lindsay Gordon
* Kate Brannigan

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Books by Val McDermid

Average rating: 3.83 · 18,587 ratings · 2,012 reviews · 50 distinct works

	The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 2,650 ratings — published 1996 — 42 editions	My rating:
	The Wire In The Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 2,101 ratings — published 1997 — 35 editions	My rating:
	A Place Of Execution 4.05 avg rating — 1,968 ratings — published 1999 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Torment Of Others (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #4) 3.99 avg rating — 1,220 ratings — published 2004 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Distant Echo 3.82 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 1,102 ratings — published 2002 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Grave Tattoo 3.55 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Fever Of The Bone (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #6) 4.06 avg rating — 996 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Beneath The Bleeding (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #5) 3.94 avg rating — 969 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions	My rating:
	A Darker Domain 3.74 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions	My rating:

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Series by Val McDermid

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan (7 books)
by Val McDermid

3.98 avg rating — 9,560 ratings

Kate Brannigan (6 books)
by Val McDermid

3.41 avg rating — 1,278 ratings

Lindsay Gordon (6 books)
by Val McDermid

3.28 avg rating — 607 ratings

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Quotes by Val McDermid

“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
― Val McDermid, Killing The Shadows

tags: crime

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“Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.”
― Val McDermid

tags: humer , sarcasm

5 people liked it

“That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”
― Val McDermid, The Torment Of Others

tags: books

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