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Val McDermid has won the UK Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger award for outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. The Scottish-born author of 27 novels was inducted into the crime-writers' Hall of Fame and elected to an honorary fellowship at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

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Click here to reserve your HCPL copy of Darker Domain, Val McDermid's 2009 stand-alone mystery thriller featuring Scottish Det. Insp. Karen Pirie, head of the Fife police Cold Case Review Team, in which Karen is requested to investigate two twenty-five-year-old cases involving missing persons, abduction and ransom.

Scottish-born McDermid has not limited herself to settings in Scotland for her novels. The Grave Tattoo (Find this book in our catalog) is a novel reminiscent of "The Rule of Four", "The Dante Club" and "The Historian" set against the scenically and culturally rich backdrop of the English Lake District. Suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the "H.M.S. Bounty". Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham is searching for the priceless lost manuscript of a Wordsworth poem supposedly inspired by the personal testimony of Fletcher Christian; but everywhere Jane seeks, death follows on her heels.

Police psychologist Tony Hill features in a series of McDermid mysteries set in England in West Yorkshire. Titles include:
The Torment of Others
The Last Temptation
The Wire in the Blood

Readers who enjoy stories of cold case files and the work of police psychologists, and who enjoy psychological suspense, are sure to find something to enjoy in the books of Val McDermid!

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