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From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: Introducing journalist Lindsay Gordon who finds herself solving a murder after a musician is killed at a concert Moments before she was due to appear on stage at school fundraising gala, star cellist Lorna Smith is found dead, garrotted with her own cello...

Award-winning novelist Val McDermid and Geographer Royal Professor Jo Sharp bring Scotland’s greatest historical catastrophe vividly to life. The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. It took place on the other...

In My Scotland, number one bestselling author Val McDermid takes readers to the landscapes she has known all her life, and the places where her stories and characters reside. This remarkable book uncovers Val's own Scotland in all its glory - from the iconic Isle of Skye to the majestic streets...

Val McDermid published her first novel in 1987 and in 2016 celebrated the publication of her 30th novel, the latest in the Inspector Karen Pirie series, Out of Bounds. She joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to talk about her illustrious career.

From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. When lecturer Lindsay Gordon returns to the UK for a trade union conference in Sheffield, she finds...

Gavin is an excellent writer; he can conjure up believable characters, evoke a credible setting and wrap the reader up in his language, but he can never seem to come up with a credible plot. On meeting Natasha at a creative writing group he thinks he has met his soulmate. Not only is she...

Winter is the time to snuggle indoors without guilt; to curl up on the sofa with a good book or a box set, a hot drink or a wee whisky to hand. Val McDermid has always had a soft spot for winter: the bitter clarity of a crisp cold day, the vivid skies over the Firth of Forth, the crunch of frost...