Val McDermid

The Mermaids Singing is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid. The first featuring her recurring protagonist, Dr. Tony Hill, it was adapted into the pilot episode of ITV1's television series based on McDermid's work, Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris. The title is part of the fifth …

The Last Temptation is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid, the third in her acclaimed Dr. Tony Hill series, which has been adapted into the ITV television drama Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green. This particular novel served loosely as the basis for recent episode Falls the Shadow.

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 …

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.