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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

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Dr. Tony Hill & Carol Jordan Mysteries

The Mermaids Singing is a chilling and taut psychological mystery from Val McDermid, the basis for the ITV series Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris.This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.The bodies of four men have been discove...

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Val McDermid

This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is now on Britbox as Karen Pirie!Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo--an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge.Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumb...

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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

The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes.A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death.And it could be worth a fortune.It's summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on...

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Val McDermid

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Lindsay Gordon Crime Series

The debut novel from no.1 bestseller Val McDermid, now with a new cover design and introduction from the author: Introducing lesbian journalist Lindsay Gordon who finds herself solving a murder after a musician is killed at a concertMoments before she was due to appear on stage at school fundraising gala, star cellist Lorna Smith is found dead, garrotted with her own cello string.Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon was only covering the gala to make some quick cash, but whe...

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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

“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

"An irresistible combination of contemporary psychological thriller and historical mystery filled with the moody atmosphere of the Lake District." —Tess Gerritsen, New York Times–bestselling authorIn The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed bo...

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Val McDermid

A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction – Val McDermid.In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder.Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers.Now ...

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Val McDermid

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Lindsay Gordon Crime Series

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: Lindsay Gordon teams up with a fellow journalist to investigate a kidnappingAfter a chance encounter leads to new opportunities, freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon partners with Rory Mclaren to investigate the kidnapping of Jack Gourlay, a local car dealer’s stepson.But when Jack’s stepfather, Tam, is killed in an explosion, Lindsay and Rory realise this case is far more dangerous than expected.As the violence escalates, Linds...

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Val McDermid

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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...