Stranded
by Val McDermid
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A superb collection of nineteen nail-biting, perfectly plotted short stories from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid, the queen of the psychological thriller.Tags
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Stranded is a collection of short stories, nineteen in total by Val McDermid. Ian Rankin forewarns the read of the passion, obsession and revenge in these stories which McDermid tackles in these stories.
McDermid manages to take her readers to places in her short stories that some authors cannot achieve in a full novel. This collection is a wonderful journey through McDermid’s fictional world. Two of the stories, The Road and The Miles to Dundee are infused with dark humour as she explores her roots.
While Kate Brannigan appears in two of the stories there is plenty to make you smile through out the collection. Each of the nineteen stories are enjoyable for different reasons. Not everyone ends up in the ground, though you will think show more some should have!
An excellent collection and proof Val McDermid does not want to kill everyone off, yet anyway. show less
McDermid manages to take her readers to places in her short stories that some authors cannot achieve in a full novel. This collection is a wonderful journey through McDermid’s fictional world. Two of the stories, The Road and The Miles to Dundee are infused with dark humour as she explores her roots.
While Kate Brannigan appears in two of the stories there is plenty to make you smile through out the collection. Each of the nineteen stories are enjoyable for different reasons. Not everyone ends up in the ground, though you will think show more some should have!
An excellent collection and proof Val McDermid does not want to kill everyone off, yet anyway. show less
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Alternate titles*
- Stranded
- Original publication date
- 2005
- Important places
- Manchester, England, UK; Lancashire, England, UK; Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- First words
- Val McDermid learned to swim in the North Sea. (Foreword)
Picture a city, its architecture a mix of Austro-Hungarian empire and former Eastern bloc. ("Mittel") - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The phone's ringing, and I have a funny feeling it's going to be a voice asking for directions. ("The Road and the Miles to Dundee")
- Original language*
- Englisch
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