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Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels captivate readers worldwide, translated into more than thirty languages and selling over eleven million copies. Internationally acclaimed, she has won numerous awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. Her achievements include induction into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010, and the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. As a full-time writer, she maintains a creative balance between her homes in Cheshire and Edinburgh, where she draws inspiration for her gripping stories.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Val McDermid
- #1AmazonRizzio (By: Denise Mina)(2021)
- #2AmazonHex (By: Jenni Fagan)(2022)
- #3AmazonNothing Left to Fear From Hell (By: Alan Warner)(2023)
- #4AmazonColumba's Bones (By: David Greig)(2023)
- #5AmazonQueen Macbeth(2024)
- #6AmazonBenbecula (By: Graeme Macrae Burnet)(2025)
- #7Amazon12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas(2000)
- #8AmazonNaked Came the Phoenix(2001)
- #9AmazonThe World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3(2002)
- #10AmazonTart Noir(2003)
- #11AmazonLike a Charm(2004)
- #12AmazonThe Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories(2005)
- #13AmazonMagnetic North(2005)
- #14AmazonCrime Scenes Revisited: Scottish Popular Fiction(2006)
- #15AmazonA Merry Band of Murderers(2006)
- #16AmazonCriminal Tendencies(2009)
- #17AmazonThe Sounds Of Crime(2010)
- #18AmazonThe Library Book(2012)
- #19AmazonThe Killer Cookbook(2012)
- #20AmazonInherit the Dead(2013)
- #21AmazonOxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters(2014)
- #22AmazonOut There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT writing(2014)
- #23AmazonCrime Writers: A Decade of Crime(2016)
- #24AmazonKiller Women(2016)
- #25AmazonCrime Plus Music(2016)
- #26AmazonMatchUp(2017)
- #27AmazonExit Wounds(2019)
- #28AmazonBloody Scotland(2019)
- #29AmazonImagine A Country(2020)
- #30AmazonMarple: Twelve New Mysteries(2022)
- #1AmazonResistance(2021)
- #1AmazonMy Granny Is a Pirate(2012)
- #1AmazonA Place of Execution(1999)
- #2AmazonKilling the Shadows(2000)
- #3AmazonThe Grave Tattoo(2006)
- #4AmazonTrick of the Dark(2010)
- #5AmazonThe Vanishing Point(2012)
- #6AmazonCleanskin(2006)
- #7AmazonLife's Too Short(2010)
- #8AmazonWriting on the Wall and Other Stories(1997)
- #9AmazonStranded(2004)
- #10AmazonChristmas is Murder(2020)
- #1AmazonHonor & ... (By: C.J. Box,Sandra Brown)(2017)
- #2AmazonDeserves to Be Dead (By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson)(2017)
- #3AmazonGetaway (By: Lisa Scottoline,Nelson DeMille)(2017)
- #4AmazonMidnight Flame (By: Christopher Rice,Lara Adrian)(2018)
- #5AmazonShort Story (By: Karin Slaughter,Michael Koryta)(2019)
- #6AmazonPast Prologue (By: Diana Gabaldon,Steve Berry)(2019)
- #7AmazonFaking a Murderer (By: Lee Child,Kathy Reichs)(2019)
- #8AmazonDig Here (By: Charlaine Harris,Andrew Gross)(2019)
- #9AmazonTaking the Veil (By: J.A. Jance,Eric Van Lustbader)(2019)
- #10AmazonRambo on Their Minds (By: Gayle Lynds,David Morrell)(2019)
- #11AmazonFootloose (With: Peter James)(2019)
- #1AmazonThe Mermaids Singing(1995)
- #2AmazonThe Wire In The Blood(1997)
- #3AmazonThe Last Temptation(2002)
- #4AmazonThe Torment of Others(2004)
- #5AmazonBeneath the Bleeding(2007)
- #6AmazonFever of the Bone(2009)
- #7AmazonThe Retribution(2011)
- #8AmazonCross and Burn(2013)
- #9AmazonSplinter the Silence(2015)
- #10AmazonInsidious Intent(2017)
- #11AmazonFootloose (With: Peter James)(2019)
- #12AmazonHow the Dead Speak(2019)
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels captivate readers worldwide, translated into more than thirty languages and selling over eleven million copies. Internationally acclaimed, she has won numerous awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. Her achievements include induction into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010, and the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. As a full-time writer, she maintains a creative balance between her homes in Cheshire and Edinburgh, where she draws inspiration for her gripping stories.
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