Val McDermid

Nights of passion and revenge in St Petersburg; a bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders; the sleazy flipside of the international publishing scene; an author succumbing to the deadly lure of cyberspace... STRANDED demonstrates, yet again, the scope of Val McDermid's imagination, her versatility as a stylist …

Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo---an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revengeFour 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 a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, cold case squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. However, her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets.

The Torment of Others is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid, and is the fourth entry in her popular Carol Jordan and Dr. Tony Hill series, which has been successfully adapted into the television series Wire in the Blood. The novel was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and won the …