Introductory Notes
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Val McDermid was born in Scotland, attended Oxford, then spent 14 years as a journalist while nurturing her desire to become a fiction writer. Her first attempt at creative writing failed as a novel but succeeded as a play. Then, “excited by the New Wave of American women crime writers,” she decided to try a crime novel set in the U.K. Report for Murder, her first novel, was published in 1987. She quit her job as a journalist and became a full-time creative writer in 1991.
Books by Val McDermid
(Dates are given for publication in the U. S.)
Kate Brannigan Mysteries
- Dead Beat (1992)
- Kickback (1993)
- Crack Down (1994)
- Clean Break (1995)
- Blue Genes (1996)
- Star Struck (1998)
Lindsay Gordon Mysteries
- Report for Murder (1987)
- Common Murder (1989)
- Final Edition (1991) [U.S. title--Open and Shut]
- Union Jack (1993)
- Booked for Murder (1996)
- Hostage to Murder (2005)
Tony Hill/Carol Jordan Series
- The Mermaids Singing (1995)
- The Wire in the Blood (1997)
- The Last Temptation (2002)
- The Torment of Others (2004)
- Beneath the Bleeding (2007)
- Fever of the Bone (2009)
- The Retribution (2011)
Non-Series Books
- The Writing on the Wall (1997)
- A Place of Execution (1999)
- Killing the Shadows (2000)
- The Distant Echo (2003)
- Stranded (2005)
- The Grave Tattoo (2006)
- A Darker Domain (2009)
- Trick of the Dark (2011)
Nonfiction
- A Suitable Job for a Woman (1995)