Val McDermid
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Val McDermid (born June 4,1955) is a Scottish lesbian crime writer.
McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first ever student from a state school in Scotland, and became President of the Junior Common Room. After graduation, she became a journalist, and had some success as a dramatist. However, her first success as a novelist, with Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery, was not until 1987.
McDermid's most notable characters are a lesbian journalist, Lindsey Gordan, and a PI, Kate Brannigan. Her books mainly fall into three series: first came the Lindsay Gordon series and then the Kate Brannigan series. 1997 saw the start of the Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series with The Wire in the Blood.
Publications
Lindsay Gordon mysteries:
- Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Common Murder: The Second Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Deadline for Murder: The Third Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Conferences are Murder:The Fourth Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Booked for Murder: The Fifth Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Hostage to Murder: The Sixth Lindsay Gordon Mystery
- Dead Beat (1992)
- Kick Back (1993)
- Crack Down (1994)
- Clean Break (1995)
- Blue Genes (1996)
- Star Struck (1998)
- The Mermaids Singing (1995)
- The Wire in the Blood (1997)
- The Last Temptation (2002)
- The Torment of Others (2004)
- A Place of Execution
- Killing The Shadows
- The Distant Echo
- Stranded: a collection of short fiction
External Links
- Complete Bibliography (http://www.parchayi.net/interest.php?content=3&author=66)