Val McDermid

16 Series

Val McDermid is a Scottish crime fiction novelist renowned for her Tartan Noir genre works. She is best known for her suspense series featuring Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. McDermid has also created notable characters such as lesbian journalist Lindsay Gordon and private investigator Kate Brannigan.

Val McDermid's "Final Edition," known as "Open and Shut" and "Deadline for Murder" in the U.S., and "Union Jack," titled "Conferences are Murder" in the U.S., showcase her gripping storytelling. "Naked Came the Phoenix" is a collaborative novel featuring contributions from notable authors such as Nevada Barr, Diana Gabaldon, and J.D. Robb. "Magnetic North" includes works by Neil Astley, Andrew Crumey, and others, adding depth to McDermid's narrative style. These works highlight McDermid's versatility and ability to engage readers with compelling plots and diverse voices.

Allie Burns

1979

(2021)

1989

(2022)

Inspector Karen Pirie

The Distant Echo

(2003)

A Darker Domain

(2008)

The Skeleton Road

(2014)

Out of Bounds

(2016)

Broken Ground

(2018)

Still Life

(2020)

Past Lying

(2023)

Kate Brannigan

Dead Beat

(1992)

Kick Back

(1993)

Crack Down

(1994)

Clean Break

(1995)

Blue Genes

(1996)

Star Struck

(1998)

Lindsay Gordon

Report For Murder

(1987)

Common Murder

(1989)

Final Edition / Open and Shut / Deadline for Murder

(1991)

Union Jack / Conferences Are Murder

(1993)

Booked For Murder

(1996)

Final Edition

(1997)(With: V.L. McDermid)

Hostage To Murder

(2003)

Tony Hill/Carol Jordan

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)

Cross and Burn

(2013)

Splinter the Silence

(2015)

Insidious Intent

(2017)

Footloose

(2019)(With: Peter James)

How the Dead Speak

(2019)

Standalone Novels

A Place of Execution

(1999)

Killing the Shadows

(2000)

The Grave Tattoo

(2006)

Trick of the Dark

(2010)

The Vanishing Point

(2012)

Short Stories/Novellas

Cleanskin

(2006)

Life's Too Short

(2010)

Short Story Collections

Writing on the Wall and Other Stories

(1997)

Stranded

(2004)

Christmas is Murder

(2020)

Graphic Novels

Resistance

(2021)

Picture

My Granny Is a Pirate

(2012)

Non-Fiction

A Suitable Job for a Woman

(1994)

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

(2014)

My Scotland

(2019)

Austen Project

Sense & Sensibility

(2013)(By: Joanna Trollope)

Northanger Abbey

(2014)

Emma

(2014)(By: Alexander McCall Smith)

Eligible

(2016)(By: Curtis Sittenfeld)

The MatchUp Collection

Honor & ...

(2017)(By: C.J. Box,Sandra Brown)

Deserves to Be Dead

(2017)(By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson)

Getaway

(2017)(By: Lisa Scottoline,Nelson DeMille)

Midnight Flame

(2018)(By: Christopher Rice,Lara Adrian)

Short Story

(2019)(By: Karin Slaughter,Michael Koryta)

Past Prologue

(2019)(By: Diana Gabaldon,Steve Berry)

Faking a Murderer

(2019)(By: Lee Child,Kathy Reichs)

Dig Here

(2019)(By: Charlaine Harris,Andrew Gross)

Taking the Veil

(2019)(By: J.A. Jance,Eric Van Lustbader)

Rambo on Their Minds

(2019)(By: Gayle Lynds,David Morrell)

Footloose

(2019)(With: Peter James)

Murderous Christmas Stories

Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2016)

Murder on Christmas Eve

(2017)

A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2018)

Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season

(2019)

Murder on a Winter's Night

(2021)

Murder in the Falling Snow

(2022)

Darkland Tales

Rizzio

(2021)(By: Denise Mina)

Hex

(2022)(By: Jenni Fagan)

Nothing Left to Fear From Hell

(2023)(By: Alan Warner)

Columba's Bones

(2023)(By: David Greig)

Queen Macbeth

(2024)

Anthologies

12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas

(2000)

Naked Came the Phoenix

(2001)

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3

(2002)

Tart Noir

(2003)

Like a Charm

(2004)

The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories

(2005)

Magnetic North

(2005)

Crime Scenes Revisited: Scottish Popular Fiction

(2006)

A Merry Band of Murderers

(2006)

Criminal Tendencies

(2009)

The Sounds Of Crime

(2010)

The Library Book

(2012)

The Killer Cookbook

(2012)

Inherit the Dead

(2013)

OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters

(2014)

Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT writing

(2014)

Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime

(2016)

Crime Plus Music

(2016)

MatchUp

(2017)

Exit Wounds

(2019)

Bloody Scotland

(2019)

Imagine A Country

(2020)

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

(2022)

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