Val McDermid
Scottish crime writer, author of the Tony Hill and Karen Pirie novels; former journalist and broadcaster.
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Loved A Dark Matter
It's a really great read. I read this in two days when my life was very busy, and I really shouldn't have been taking time off to sit in the corner and read, but I just kept wanting to return to it because I was marvellously entertained and engaged by it.
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
Recommends Norwegian by Night
And read Norwegian by Night anyway, because it's a great read. I remember first reading that and thinking, 'Oh, this guy can really write.' Read
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
Loved American by Day
American by Day is engagingly written. Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose.
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
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Loved The Lost Man
I think The Lost Man is her best yet. It's not just a great crime novel, I think it's a great novel.
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
Loved This Mortal Boy
It's an amazing novel, this. It's compelling. It's a novelization of a real event: the second last hanging in New Zealand.
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
Liked My Sister, the Serial Killer
But the thing I liked about this book most of all was the voice. It's a first person narrative where you really get a sense of her coming through in the language she uses, the way she speaks, and the way she takes us through her story.
fivebooks.com 4 Dec 2019
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- Bargain alert!!! 22 Feb 2025
- Check out the Gone Medieval podcast, out today, to hear me holding forth about QUEEN MACBETH! 7 Jan 2025 podcasts.apple.com
- Aye, the nights are fair drawin’ oot… 22 Dec 2024
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- Join me in conversation tomorrow on @bbcradio4.bsky.social at 4pm. Take Four Books, presented by James Crawford, talks to the writer and son of John Le Carré - Nick Harkaway - about his new book Karla's Choice and its connections to three other literary works. (I get to chip in...) 21 Dec 2024
- Bedtime fun for the bookworm in your life... 12 Dec 2024
- Most books do, I find! Enjoy the revisit 12 Dec 2024
- Still puzzling what to buy the reader in your life for Xmas? Pop along to In the Company of Books with me and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social plus special guests Paula Hawkins and Alan Cumming to hear about our recommendations! Sunday 15th, 4pm, Assembly on the Mound. Good craic guaranteed 9 Dec 2024
- I never imagined growing up in Kirkcaldy that we would need such a thing. But we do. We really do. 6 Dec 2024
- Off to read the lesson @ St Giles Cathedral this evening. Now there’s a sentence I never expected to utter! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to @Trussell for giving me the chance to support their food bank work. 3 Dec 2024
- Royal Literary Fund applications for hardship grants for professional writers rose almost five-fold to 400% in the first financial quarter of 2024. RLF makes grants to authors who have traditionally published at least two books who are experiencing “reduced income” or “a change in circumstances”. 2 Dec 2024
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