Val McDermid
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape...
2) Still life
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch--a body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation. At the same time, a woman in the wealthy enclave of Perth is clearing out her sister's home after a fatal road accident and finds a...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somervilles inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise--a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems. And as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of...
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English
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"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
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English
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"In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate--but...
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English
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The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience...
7) 1989
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are discovered in a far corner, young men from as recently as ten years ago. Meanwhile, Tony is behind bars for murder and Carol has finally run out of road as a cop. While he's finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail, she's looking into suspected...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty. After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the...
10) Out of bounds
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She's the best we've got." Her newest thriller, Beneath the Bleeding, once again proves it to be so. Winner of the coveted CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing, McDermid reunites her popular investigating team of Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan in Beneath the Bleeding, as...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return for the first time since The Last Temptation in A Golden Dagger nominee for 2004 Best Novel of the Year. Devastated after the vicious assault she suffered in The Last Temptation, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan has returned to Bradfield to resume her career. But she is surprised to discover that clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has followed her there to take up a post in a high...
13) Past lying
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot--the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed--but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
14) Northanger Abbey
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Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.
17) The distant echo
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie,...
19) The retribution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
World-class crime writer Val McDermid has sold millions of copies of her books worldwide. In The Retribution, clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan face a terrifying reality: serial killer Jacko Vance has escaped imprisonment-and appears hellbent on revenge against those who put him behind bars.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill's worst nightmare--a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it's just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people--victims...