Val Mcdermid
Val McDermid's The Wire in the Blood is "a superb psychological thriller" (Cosmopolitan), the basis for ITV's series of the same name.
Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen.
A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes, and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectation on its head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
On a freezing day in December 1963, Alison Carter vanishes from her rural village, an insular community that distrusts the outside
8) Still life
10) 1989
A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize
"A thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history." —Seattle Times
Don't miss the Karen Pirie on BritBox, based on Val McDermid's mystery series!
The New York Times calls Val McDermid, "As smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out
...13) Broken ground
15) Past lying
17) The Distant Echo
This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is now on Britbox as Karen Pirie!
Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo—an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge.
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a
18) The retribution
Tony Hill has had a good run. He and detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance, ex-celebrity and sociopath...