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Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen 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, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife. X @valmcdermid Instagram @quineofcrime
Silent Bones is brilliant - really intricate, gripping and asking some tough questions; a perfect crime novel -- KATE MOSSE A beautifully structured, witty and twisty novel with the friendship between the magnificent Karen Pirie and her team at its heart -- ANN CLEEVES A propulsive, razor-sharp thrill-ride full of humour, heart, and trademark twists. I love Karen Pirie, and Silent Bones adds to a classic series that just keeps getting better -- CHRIS WHITAKER Powerful, moving and wise - Val McDermid's books are always enthralling -- HARLAN COBEN A corkscrew twist at every turn * DAILY MAIL * Showcases the agile plotting that makes this among the best crime fiction series today * IRISH TIMES * McDermid blends procedural tension with eerie rural isolation * I PAPER * Although Pirie is well worth following, the main reason to do so is McDermid's fiendishly elaborate plotting... It's fun to read too - right up to a final plot twist that not even the world's finest clairvoyant could see coming * SCOTSMAN * McDermid delivers suspense, authentic characters and an exploration of hidden power and deceit * WOMAN & HOME * McDermid is at the top of her game in the masterful latest installment of her DCI Karen Pirie series . . . McDermid's procedural instincts are as strong as ever, and she balances them with wrenching developments in Karen's personal life . . . Readers will rest easy knowing they're in the hands of a seasoned storyteller * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW * Fiendishly elaborate plotting, fun to read [with] a final plot twist that not even the world's finest clairvoyant could see coming -- SCOTSMAN The bones in question actually speak volumes . . . readers will be rewarded by a richly textured experience -- KIRKUS REVIEWS Excellent -- THE TIMES A gripping mystery to dive into -- HEAT Val McDermid's most tortuous, tense and ingeniously planned novel yet -- PS MAGAZINE Praise for Val McDermid * - * McDermid is at her considerable best here * Guardian * A supremo of the genre at the height of her powers . . . An unmissable new series -- Peter James A tour-de-force . . . The Queen of Crime has delivered another masterpiece -- David Baldacci
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