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Val McDermid


Born
in Fife, Scotland
June 04, 1955

Website

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Genre
Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Influences
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Reginald Hill, William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky and James L ...more


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 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 and was 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.

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Judging the Man Booker Prize

Val McDermid on What It’s Like Judging the Man Booker Prize – Q & A


LONDON — On the morning of Oct. 16, five judges will meet in a secret location here to decide the winner of the Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.


They will have about eight hours to pick a winner from the six-strong shortlist, which includes Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room” and Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black.” But the.../>

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