Val McDermid

Snön ligger tung över den skotska staden St Andrews när studenten Alex Gilbey och hans tre polare hittar en kvinna knivskuren och döende på kyrkogården. De fyra killarna misstänks för mordet och trots att de aldrig döms blir de märkta för livet. Tjugofem år senare hoppas polisen att den nya DNA-tekniken ska kunna lösa det mystiska mordet. Men när man börjar röra i det förflutna avslöjas nya grymheter och snart svävar fler människor i livsfara. Val McDermid är en av Europas främsta thrillerförfattare, med stor framgång över hela världen.

The Mermaids Singing is a chilling and taut psychological mystery from Val McDermid, the basis for the ITV series Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris. This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim. A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage--or the power--to stop it...

This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is now on Britbox as Karen Pirie Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo--an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge. Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. The only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has his own idea of justice. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire and soon after, a second is killed. Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.

Val McDermid's The Wire in the Blood is "a superb psychological thriller" (Cosmopolitan), the basis for ITV's series of the same name. Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find... He's handsome and talented, rich and famous--a notorious charmer with the power to seduce...and the will to destroy. No one can believe what he's capable of. No one can imagine what he's already done. And no one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered--the first move in a sick and violent game for three players. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and so brilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them...

Winter 1963. An einem frostigen Dezembertag verschwindet ein dreizehnjähriges Mädchen spurlos aus dem abgeschiedenen Dorf Scardale in Derbyshire: Ahson Carter, die Stieftochter des Gutsherrn. Der junge Inspector George Bennett erhofft sich den ersten spektakulären Ermittlungserfolg seiner Laufbahn. Doch im Dorf Scardale, wo die Zeit stehengeblieben zu sein scheint, herrscht Mißtrauen - und tiefes Schweigen. Von Stunde zu Stunde, von Woche zu Woche mehren sich die Zeichen, daß Alison brutal ermordet wurde. Doch erst nach Monaten hartnäckigen Suchens und einem aufwühlenden Prozeß wird George Bennett den Fall zu den Akten legen - mit mehr offenen Fragen auf der Seele, als ihm lieb ist. Jahrzehnte später, im Jahre 1998, entschließt sich die junge Journalistin Catherine Heathcote, die Geschichte des berühmten "Mordfalls ohne Leiche" in einem Buch aufzuzeichnen. Kaum aber hat sie ihr Manuskript abgeschlossen, geschieht etwas völlig Unerwartetes: George Bennett verbietet die Veröffentlichung. Catherine wird von jetzt an selbst ermitteln und auf eine Wahrheit stoßen, die zerstörerisch ist - eine Wahrheit, die Leben vernichten oder aber retten kann. Die Entscheidung hegt bei ihr... Val McDermid, die zu den erfolgreichsten britischen Autorinnen von Spannungsliteratur zählt, stellt in ihrem atemberaubenden Roman die Gesetze des Kriminalgenres auf den Kopf. In zwei Akten erzählt sie die Geschichte einer tragischen Täuschung - und treibt dabei das raffinierteste Spiel mit der Leichtgläubigkeit der Leser.

A gripping Kate Brannigan thriller, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.'Val McDermid remains unrivalled' Observer

Val McDermid's Number One bestselling crime series, featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill and Jacko Vance - protagonist of new novel THE RETRIBUTION - in the suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller that led to the much-loved TV show.

"But down these mean streets must go a man who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid". When Raymond Chandler wrote these words in his classic The Simple Art of Murder, he drew a blueprint for the male private eyes who descend from Philip Marlowe to populate the world of crime fiction. But what if the private eye is a woman? And what if she is not a character in a novel but a real, working investigator testing not only the meanness but the absurdity of life on seamy streets? Who will tell her story? Enter Manchester's Val McDermid, herself a skilled writer of the P. I. novel but for years a professional journalist. In an effort to plumb the real world of working women -- and throw new light on her own craft -- she has interviewed women private eyes from both sides of the Atlantic and assembled their stories with an eye for the absurd and a keen grasp of the gritty nuts and bolts of the profession. As fascinating as fiction, A Suitable Job for a Woman is, in the words of Edgar-winning author Nevada Barr, "a concise and eye-opening trek through the competence, humor, and humanity of women".

Mesterlig skotsk krim! Gravlagt er åttende bok i den bestselgende Karen Pirie-serien, som også er en populær tv-serie på Netflix. Et jordskred avdekker et 11 år gammelt lik i asfalten på en motorvei utenfor Edinburgh. Karen Pirie og hennes cold case-enhet kastes inn i et nett av løgner som leder rett til Skottlands rikeste og mektigste. Gravlagt er en perfekt krimroman full av overraskende vendinger!

Bak løgnen er intens, mørk og atmosfærisk pageturner, som bekrefter hvorfor McDermid regnes som en av sin generasjons mest geniale krimforfatterne. Bak løgnen er den syvende i den kritikerroste serien om Karen Pirie, som også er filmatisert og vist på NRK. Det er april i 2020 og pandemi i Edinburgh. Gatene er nesten tomme, og det er kun tillatt å trene utendørs en time om dagen. Men pandemi betyr ikke at de kriminelle tar ferie. Da en kilde fra Nasjonalbiblioteket kontakter DCI Karen Piries angående et arkivert manuskript til en nylig avdød krimforfatter, ser en gammel uløst sak dagens lys. Historien hun får lese ligner skremmende på en av Karens saker. Kan manuskriptet være nøkkelen til å forstå hva som skjedde med studenten Lara Hardie, som forsvant. Det er bare et problem: Forfatteren døde før han fullførte boka. Og når Karen graver dypere, avdekker hun ikke bare en løgn, men mange løgner og en farlig spiral av svik og hevn. Og mens Karen og teamet hennes prøver å skille fakta fra fiksjon, skjønner de at saken er mer komplisert enn de noen gang kunne forestille seg.«Dronningen av krim er fortsatt på topp!» The Independant