Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.
Series
Books
Hostage To Murder
2003
Imagine A Country
Ideas for a Better Future
2020
Broken Ground
2018
1979
2021
Blue Genes
1996
Ghost Writer
2013
Naked Came the Phoenix
2001
Final Edition & Union Jack
2018
Trick of the Dark
2010
Kick Back
1993
How the Dead Speak
2019
Past Lying
2023
A Place of Execution
1999
Conferences Are Murder
1993
Val McDermid 3-Book Thriller Collection
The Mermaids Singing, The Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation
2016
Common Murder
1989
Queen Macbeth
2024
Stranded
2005
The Retribution
2011
The Mermaids Singing
1995
My Granny Is a Pirate
2012
Christmas is Murder
A Chilling Short Story Collection
2020
Northanger Abbey
2014
Booked For Murder
1996
Deadline For Murder
1997
Village SOS
2023
The Library Book
2012
Out of Bounds
2016
Forensics
The Anatomy of Crime
2014
Resistance
A Graphic Novel
2021
Bloody Scotland
2017
Star Struck
1998
Crack Down
1994
Report for Murder
1987
Killing the Shadows
2000
The Last Temptation
2002
Dead Beat & Kick Back
2004
Gunpowder Plots
2013
Insidious Intent
2017
Tödliche Worte
2005
Footloose
2018
Splinter the Silence
2015
Happy Holidays
2008
Life's Too Short
2010
The Wire in the Blood
Book 2
2021
Christmas is Murder
A Short Story Collection
2012
The Torment of Others
2004
Clean Break
1995
The Grave Tattoo
2006
A Darker Domain
2008
Report for Murder & Common Murder
2018
Cross and Burn
2013
Val McDermid 3-Book Crime Collection
A Place of Execution, The Distant Echo, The Grave Tattoo
2013
Beneath the Bleeding
2007
Fever of the Bone
2009
1989
2022
Resistance
2021
Marple
Twelve New Mysteries
2022
The Skeleton Road
2014
The Distant Echo
2003
My Scotland
2019
Still Life
2020
The Wire in the Blood
1997
Dead Beat
1992
A Suitable Job for a Woman
1994
Cleanskin
2006
The Vanishing Point
2012
