Past Lying 8th October 2023
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn’t be surprised when an author’s manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. Karen can’t...
Blogs in October 2023
Still Life 5th May 2021
From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery. When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth,...
A Place of Execution 27th May 2020
In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when...
Northanger Abbey 7th August 2015
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and...
The Grave Tattoo 29th June 2014
A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It’s summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be...
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