PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.
the McDermid touch of suspense * Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin * the opening lines of each of the 19 stories skilfully hooks the reader * South Coast Register * The stories in Stranded are intriguing and surprising as they imaginatively probe human strengths and frailties. * Good Reading *
