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1979 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
She's hunting for a killer story . . . 1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Su ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns 2
It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, 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 me ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE SECOND THRILLING NOVEL IN VAL MCDERMID'S NEW ALLIE BURNS SERIES ___________There's nothing like a killer story . . .1989. The world is changing, and Allie Burns is still on the front line, covering the stories that count.Although Allie is no longer an investig ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction
The superb new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history - the national miners' strike 1984, Fife: Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wro ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Detective Karen Pirie
Val McDermid, creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history. Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a m ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction
Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of Scotland's richest man and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate is still unknown. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case ...Show more
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right pla ...Show more
Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction
'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express __________The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales.From an irresponsible baron whose body is dis ...Show more
Cross and Burn by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Tony Hill
Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they're not talking doesn't mean the killing stops. Someone is killing women. Women who bear a disturbing resemblance to Carol Jordan. And when the evidence begi ...Show more
Fever Of The Bone by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan 6
You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that ...Show more
Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan 6
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan make a nail-biting return