Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years‚ spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full−time writer‚ she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.
McDermid has achieved major success with her series of books featuring criminal profiler‚ Tony Hill. The first book in the series‚ The Mermaids Singing‚ won the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year‚ while the second‚ The Wire in the Blood‚ lends its name to the highly acclaimed television series featuring Robson Green as Tony... Read the full biography of Val McDermid
A Place of Execution − An interview with Val McDermid
Val McDermid is back with the biggest book of her career so far: A Place of Execution. It′s a taut psychological suspense thriller‚ the like of which you won′t have read in a long while. It opens in the winter of 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December‚ another child goes missing: thirteen−year−old Alison Carter...
