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Val McDermid Books in Order
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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Val McDermid's book series? Val McDermid has written 12 book series. The most notable is the Austen Project series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Val McDermid
- #1
Sense & Sensibility (By: Joanna Trollope)(2013) - #2
Northanger Abbey(2014) - #3
Emma (By: Alexander McCall Smith)(2014) - #4
Eligible (By: Curtis Sittenfeld)(2016)
- #1
Rizzio (By: Denise Mina)(2021) - #2
Hex (By: Jenni Fagan)(2022) - #3
Nothing Left to Fear From Hell (By: Alan Warner)(2023) - #4
Columba's Bones (By: David Greig)(2023) - #5
Queen Macbeth(2024) - #6
Benbecula (By: Graeme Macrae Burnet)(2025) - #7
12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas(2000) - #8
Naked Came the Phoenix(2001) - #9
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3(2002) - #10
Tart Noir(2003) - #11
Like a Charm(2004) - #12The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories(2005)
- #13
Magnetic North(2005) - #14
Crime Scenes Revisited: Scottish Popular Fiction(2006) - #15
A Merry Band of Murderers(2006) - #16
Criminal Tendencies(2009) - #17
The Sounds Of Crime(2010) - #18
The Library Book(2012) - #19
The Killer Cookbook(2012) - #20
Inherit the Dead(2013) - #21
OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters(2014) - #22Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT writing(2014)
- #23
Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime(2016) - #24
Killer Women(2016) - #25
Crime Plus Music(2016) - #26
MatchUp(2017) - #27
Exit Wounds(2019) - #28
Bloody Scotland(2019) - #29
Imagine A Country(2020) - #30
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries(2022)
- #1
Resistance(2021)
- #1The Distant Echo(2003)
- #2A Darker Domain(2008)
- #3The Skeleton Road(2014)
- #4
Out of Bounds(2016) - #5
Broken Ground(2018) - #6Still Life(2020)
- #7
Past Lying(2023) - #8
Silent Bones(2025)
- #1
Dead Beat(1992) - #2
Kick Back(1993) - #3
Crack Down(1994) - #4
Clean Break(1995) - #5
Blue Genes(1996) - #6
Star Struck(1998)
- #1
Report For Murder(1987) - #2
Common Murder(1989) - #3
Final Edition / Open and Shut / Deadline for Murder(1991) - #4
Union Jack / Conferences Are Murder(1993) - #5
Booked For Murder(1996) - #6
Final Edition (With: V.L. McDermid)(1997) - #7
Hostage To Murder(2003)
- #1
Murder under the Christmas Tree(2016) - #2
Murder on Christmas Eve(2017) - #3
A Very Murderous Christmas(2018) - #4
Murder at Christmas(2019) - #5
Murder in Midwinter(2020) - #6
Murder on a Winter's Night(2021) - #7
Murder in the Falling Snow(2022)
- #1A Suitable Job for a Woman(1994)
- #2Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime(2014)
- #3
My Scotland(2019)
- #1
My Granny Is a Pirate(2012)
- #1
A Place of Execution(1999) - #2Killing the Shadows(2000)
- #3
The Grave Tattoo(2006) - #4Trick of the Dark(2010)
- #5
The Vanishing Point(2012) - #6Cleanskin(2006)
- #7Life's Too Short(2010)
- #8
Writing on the Wall and Other Stories(1997) - #9Stranded(2004)
- #10
Christmas is Murder(2020)
- #1
Honor & ... (By: C.J. Box,Sandra Brown)(2017) - #2
Deserves to Be Dead (By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson)(2017) - #3
Getaway (By: Lisa Scottoline,Nelson DeMille)(2017) - #4
Midnight Flame (By: Christopher Rice,Lara Adrian)(2018) - #5
Short Story (By: Karin Slaughter,Michael Koryta)(2019) - #6
Past Prologue (By: Diana Gabaldon,Steve Berry)(2019) - #7
Faking a Murderer (By: Lee Child,Kathy Reichs)(2019) - #8
Dig Here (By: Charlaine Harris,Andrew Gross)(2019) - #9
Taking the Veil (By: J.A. Jance,Eric Van Lustbader)(2019) - #10
Rambo on Their Minds (By: Gayle Lynds,David Morrell)(2019) - #11
Footloose (With: Peter James)(2019)
- #1
The Mermaids Singing(1995) - #2
The Wire In The Blood(1997) - #3
The Last Temptation(2002) - #4
The Torment of Others(2004) - #5
Beneath the Bleeding(2007) - #6
Fever of the Bone(2009) - #7The Retribution(2011)
- #8Cross and Burn(2013)
- #9
Splinter the Silence(2015) - #10
Insidious Intent(2017) - #11Footloose (With: Peter James)(2019)
- #12
How 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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