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Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Mermaids Singing… (more)
The Mermaids Singing 1,814 copies, 66 reviews
A Place of Execution 1,658 copies, 39 reviews
The Distant Echo 1,413 copies, 50 reviews
The Wire in the Blood 1,381 copies, 26 reviews
The Grave Tattoo 1,185 copies, 43 reviews
The Last Temptation 1,159 copies, 23 reviews
The Torment of Others 1,110 copies, 20 reviews
A Darker Domain 1,028 copies, 57 reviews
Killing the Shadows 995 copies, 20 reviews
Beneath the Bleeding 820 copies, 32 reviews
Fever of the Bone 736 copies, 30 reviews
The Retribution 625 copies, 38 reviews
Northanger Abbey 530 copies, 31 reviews
The Skeleton Road 509 copies, 38 reviews
Trick of the Dark 492 copies, 21 reviews
Dead Beat 485 copies, 16 reviews
Out of Bounds 434 copies, 33 reviews
Cross and Burn 417 copies, 24 reviews
Blue Genes 393 copies, 9 reviews
Broken Ground 390 copies, 30 reviews
Splinter the Silence 383 copies, 33 reviews
Report for Murder 365 copies, 13 reviews
Kick Back 362 copies, 9 reviews
Clean Break 354 copies, 11 reviews
Crack Down 331 copies, 8 reviews
Insidious Intent 322 copies, 19 reviews
The Vanishing Point 313 copies, 17 reviews
Star Struck 310 copies, 3 reviews
1979 287 copies, 20 reviews
Still Life 277 copies, 22 reviews
Common Murder 268 copies, 6 reviews
How the Dead Speak 245 copies, 16 reviews
Union Jack 233 copies, 5 reviews
Final Edition 213 copies, 3 reviews
Booked for Murder 212 copies, 2 reviews
Hostage to Murder 194 copies, 5 reviews
1989 122 copies, 10 reviews
Cleanskin 98 copies, 6 reviews
Stranded 65 copies
Life's Too Short 23 copies, 1 review
Resistance 22 copies, 6 reviews
Final Edition | Union Jack 13 copies, 1 review
My Scotland 9 copies, 1 review
Mission Mini 5 copies
Deadheading 2 copies
Past Lying 2 copies, 1 review
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Foreword, some editions) 9,310 copies, 566 reviews
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Introduction, some editions) 2,725 copies, 51 reviews
The Seven Dials Mystery (Introduction, some editions) 2,683 copies, 65 reviews
The Singing Sands (Introduction, some editions) 1,382 copies, 47 reviews
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Introduction, some editions) 1,312 copies, 46 reviews
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories (Foreword, some editions) 668 copies, 39 reviews
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Marple: Twelve New Stories (Contributor) 303 copies, 18 reviews
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MatchUp (Contributor) 285 copies, 22 reviews
Inherit the Dead (Contributor) 283 copies, 10 reviews
The Best British Mysteries 2005 (Contributor) 121 copies, 3 reviews
Tart Noir (Contributor) 107 copies, 3 reviews
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (Foreword, some editions) 77 copies, 4 reviews
The Best British Mysteries (Contributor) 75 copies
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The Best British Mysteries 2006 (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Bloody Scotland (Contributor) 59 copies, 6 reviews
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Romance for Life (Contributor) 27 copies
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