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Val McDermid, Jo Sharp

“An immersive tale of betrayal and injustice that reverberates with a howl of anguish three centuries old.”—Chris Brookmyre, author of The Cracked MirrorFrom internationally bestselling author Val McDermid and Geographer Royal of Scotland Jo Sharp, a heart-wrenching novella about an ill-fated colonial scheme that bankrupted a country and forever altered the trajectory of historyAt the end of the seventeenth century, a brave group o...

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Val McDermid

Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day ( The Boston Globe).The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists unlock the mysteries of the past ...

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Val McDermid

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The Kate Brannigan Mysteries

Diamond Dagger Award-Winning Author: Two mysteries introducing a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester, England…As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate Branningan agrees to track down missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover ...

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Karen Pirie Novels

Forensic evidence leads to places a Scottish cop never expected in "a thriller as steely and superlative as its heroine" ( O, The Oprah Magazine).When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself.Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds he...

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Val McDermid

When clinical psychiatrist Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of press cuttings about a brutal murder,it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred on thegrounds of her old Oxford college—a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As Charlie delves back into the closeted, mysterious world that is academic life at Oxford, every step she takes toward the truth is a step closer to danger.

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Val McDermid

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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series

Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller A Place of Execution, which won the Anthony, McCavity, and the Los Angeles Times awards. Now in The Mermaids Singing, she continues her trademark ingenuity for suspense, and introduces criminal profiler Tony Hill who has spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But now he's become one of the hunted...This was the summer he discovered what he wanted -- at a gr...

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Val McDermid

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Karen Pirie Novels

A woman digs up a buried treasure—and a buried body—in the Scottish Highlands: "There are few other crime writers in the same league."—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington PostSix feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Karen Pirie is dealing not only wi...

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Val McDermid

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Karen Pirie Novels

“Powerful, moving and wise – Val McDermid’s books are always enthralling.”—Harlan Coben“A beautifully structured, witty and twisty novel.”—Ann CleevesThe new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there?Scotland, 2025. When tor...

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Val McDermid

Shakespeare created the myth of the Macbeths as indefensible murderous conspirators. But now internationally bestselling author Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of historyBritain’s reigning “Queen of Crime” (The Scotsman), Val McDermid has ensnared audiences worldwide for over thirty years with her thrilling and masterfully plotted crime oeuvre. A radical, rip-roaring counternarrative drawing on the histo...

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Val McDermid

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Karen Pirie Novels

A Scottish police inspector deals with forgeries and false identities in a new murder mystery in the "superior series" ( The New York Times).When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—involving a long-ago disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities—that seems to surround a painter who can mimic any...

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Val McDermid

In Britain circa 1984, the news is dominated by the national miners’ strike. The region of Fife in Scotland is hard hit by the strike, devastated economically and shaken by clashes between miners and police. Against this violent and bitter backdrop, heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom should have gone smoothly, but instead the payoff goes horribly wrong, and Catriona and her son disappear without a trace.Twenty-four years later, dramatic new ...

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Val McDermid

A thrilling new novel from one of the world’s most celebrated crime writers proves that the past can never stay buried…Val McDermid is the queen of psychological suspense and the #1 bestselling author of The Retribution, Cross and Burn and The Vanishing Point, among many others. Her newest masterpiece of suspense begins in Edinburgh with the discovery of a skeleton. Investigators are shocked to find this is not the result of a recent crime but in...