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Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over eighteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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Best Sellers

Beneath the Bleeding

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 5

Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 2010-03-17

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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The Wire in the Blood

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 2

Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins

Release date: 2024-08-20

Language: English

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Broken Ground

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Series: Karen Pirie, Book 5

Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Release date: 2018-12-05

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Dead Beat

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Series: Kate Brannigan, Book 1

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 2019-01-24

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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A Darker Domain

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Eilidh Fraser

Series: Karen Pirie, Book 2

Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins

Release date: 2010-02-23

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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Forensics

What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Sarah Barron

Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 2015-07-07

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
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Still Life

Karen Pirie, Book 6

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Series: Karen Pirie, Book 6

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins

Release date: 2020-10-06

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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Past Lying

Karen Pirie Novels, Book 7

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Lauren Lyle

Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7

Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 2023-11-14

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Past Lying

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Series: Karen Pirie, Book 7

Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 2024-03-26

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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The Mermaids Singing

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 1

Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins

Release date: 2024-08-20

Language: English

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Splinter the Silence

Tony Hill/Carol Jordan, Book 9

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 9

Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins

Release date: 2015-09-11

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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Cross and Burn

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gerald Doyle

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 8

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 2013-10-22

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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The Retribution

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 7

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Release date: 2012-02-29

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Blue Genes

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Series: Kate Brannigan, Book 5

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 2019-05-08

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Fever of the Bone

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 6

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 2011-04-22

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Report for Murder

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Caroline Guthrie

Series: Lindsay Gordon, Book 1

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 2018-03-23

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Val McDermid: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: full cast, Charlotte Coleman, Jane Hazelgrove, Jimmy Chisholm, Helen Baxendale, Gina McKee, Hannah Donaldson, Siobhan Redmond, Claire Knight, David Seddon

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Release date: 2022-08-04

Language: English

5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Allie Burns, Book 2

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Katie Leung

Series: Allie Burns Series, Book 2

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Release date: 2022-11-25

Language: English

3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
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Insidious Intent

Written by: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Series: Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, Book 10

Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins

Release date: 2017-12-05

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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Ink and Daggers

Written by: Ann Cleeves, Stuart Neville, Neil Gaiman, Chris Simms, Lavie Tidhar, Christine Poulson, Christopher Fowler, Martyn Waites, Ken Bruen, Victoria Selman, Val McDermid, Mickey Spillane, Conrad Williams, Max Allan Collins, Maxim Jakubowski

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 2025-03-06

Language: English

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