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Val McDermid

Born in 1955 valmcdermid.com @valmcdermid
CrimeMysteryThriller

  • Val McDermid is a bestselling crime fiction author with over thirty novels translated into more than thirty languages.

  • Her books have sold over eleven million copies worldwide.

  • McDermid has received numerous accolades, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel and the LA Times Book of the Year Award.

  • She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010.

  • McDermid also won the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011.

  • She writes full-time, dividing her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh, and is known for her thorough research and compelling storytelling in both fiction and non-fiction works.

Books by Val McDermid

Forensics Summary
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by Val McDermid 2014 310 pages
4.09
12.0K ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
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