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Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over eighteen 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 Theakstons 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 six honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

Best Sellers

Ink and Daggers

By: Ann Cleeves, Stuart Neville, Neil Gaiman, Chris Simms, Lavie Tidhar, Christine Poulson, Christopher Fowler, Martyn Waites, Ken Bruen, Victoria Selman, Val McDermid, Mickey Spillane, Conrad Williams, Max Allan Collins, Maxim Jakubowski

Narrated by: Toby Longworth, Eilidh Beaton, Christopher Ragland, Jeff Harding, Samuel Eldritch

Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins

Release date: 30-12-25

Language: English

6 ratings
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Report for Murder

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Caroline Guthrie - Introduction

Series: Lindsay Gordon Crime Series, Book 1

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Release date: 23-03-18

Language: English

3 ratings
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1979

Allie Burns, Book 1

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Katie Leung

Series: Allie Burns Series, Book 1

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 05-10-21

Language: English

1 rating
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Resistance

BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gina McKee, full cast, Chetna Pandya, Emily Pithon, Nitin Kundra

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Release date: 06-04-17

Language: English

120 ratings
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Silent Bones

A Karen Pirie Novel

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Series: Detective Karen Pirie, Book 8

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 02-12-25

Language: English

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Kick Back

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Series: Kate Brannigan, Book 2

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Release date: 24-01-19

Language: English

2 ratings
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The Torment of Others

A Tony Hill Novel

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Release date: 10-05-05

Language: English

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Dead Beat

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Series: Kate Brannigan, Book 1

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Release date: 24-01-19

Language: English

2 ratings
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1989 - Wahrheit oder Tod

Ein Fall für Journalistin Allie Burns 2

By: Val McDermid, Dr. Kirsten Reimers - Übersetzer

Narrated by: Sandra Voss

Series: Ein Fall für Journalistin Allie Burns, Book 2

Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins

Release date: 25-09-23

Language: German

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Eiszeit

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan 8

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Elke Schützhold

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 03-11-14

Language: German

1 rating
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Past Lying

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Series: Detective Karen Pirie, Book 7

Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 26-03-24

Language: English

1 rating
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Jane Austens Northanger Abbey

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Katrin Fröhlich

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Release date: 12-06-17

Language: German

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Das Grab im Moor

Ein Fall für Karen Pirie

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins

Release date: 03-09-20

Language: German

2 ratings
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Vergeltung

Carol Jordan und Tony Hill 7

By: Val McDermid, Doris Styron - Übersetzer

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins

Release date: 15-09-24

Language: German

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1979

By: Val Mcdermid, Seba Pezzani - traduttore

Narrated by: Alice Bertocchi

Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins

Release date: 03-07-24

Language: Italian

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Der Sinn des Todes

Ein Fall für Karen Pirie

By: Val McDermid, Doris Styron - Übersetzer

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Series: Ein Fall für Karen Pirie, Book 4

Length: 14 hrs

Release date: 15-07-22

Language: German

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Die Gabe der Lüge

Ein Fall für Karen Pirie 7

By: Val McDermid, Karin Diemerling - Übersetzer

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 01-06-24

Language: German

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Echo einer Winternacht

Ein Fall für Karen Pirie

By: Val McDermid, Doris Styron - Übersetzer

Narrated by: Axel Wostry

Series: Ein Fall für Karen Pirie, Book 1

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Release date: 02-05-22

Language: German

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Rachgier

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan 10

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 21-09-18

Language: German

1 rating
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Der Knochengarten

Tony Hill & Carol Jordan 11

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Wolfgang Berger

Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins

Release date: 02-06-20

Language: German

1 rating
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