Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been
translated into forty 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 Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes
full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of
Fife.
The ingenuity with which Val McDermid keeps her crime-fighting duo
fresh is as captivating as her deftly plotted denouement
*Scotland on Sunday*
McDermid's storytelling is as classy and compelling as ever
*Observer*
This is McDermid on exemplary form, generating the requisite
suspense but never forgetting that the characterisation of Hill and
Jordan is a key ingredient
*Financial Times*
'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game'
*Independent*
Elegantly choreographed . . . McDermid fashions a finale which tees
up the next thriller in this sequence admirably
*The Scotsman*
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