Val McDermid
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 68 |
Web site | www.valmcdermid.com |
Date of birth | June 4,1955 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Kirkcaldy |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Joanne P. Sharp |
Albums | Vatermord (Ungekürzt) |
Job | Actor |
Author | |
Novelist | |
Crime writer | |
Education | Kirkcaldy High School |
St Hilda's College | |
Oxford | |
Awards | Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award |
Cartier Diamond Dagger | |
Dilys Award | |
Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Novel | |
Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel | |
Anthony Award for Best Novel | |
Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction Work | |
Official site | valmcdermid.com |
Parents | Jim McDermid |
Genres | Crime Fiction |
Movies/Shows | Wire in the Blood |
Traces | |
Nominations | Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 430400 |
The Mermaids Singing
Insidious Intent
The Distant Echo
Out of Bounds
The Skeleton Road
Fever of the Bone
Splinter the Silence
A Darker Domain
Broken Ground
The Retribution
The Last Temptation
Beneath the Bleeding
The wire in the blood
Cross and Burn
The Torment of Others
Trick of the Dark
Killing the shadows
Report for Murder
Grave Tattoo
Blue Genes
Dead beat
The Vanishing Point
My Granny Is a Pirate
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
Hostage to Murder
Crack down
Star Struck
Booked for Murder
Clean break
Common Murder
Final Edition
A Suitable Job for a Woman
Conferences Are Murder
Cleanskin
Deadline for murder
Match Up
The Writing on the Wall and Other Stories
Naked Came the Phoenix
My Scotland
Gunpowder Plots: A Short Story Collection
Kick Back
Northanger Abbey
Val McDermid 3-Book Thriller Collection: The Mermaids Singing, The Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan)
Stranded
Christmas is Murder: A Short Story Collection
Report for Murder and Common Murder: Lindsay Gordon Mysteries #1 and #2
Cross Roads: A Short Story Collection
Dead Beat and Kick Back: Kate Brannigan Mysteries #1 and #2
The Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, 1-4: The Mermaids Singing, The Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation, The Torment of Others,
Bloody Scotland
1979
Val McDermid Life story
Valarie McDermid, FRSE, FRSL is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, in a grim sub-genre known as Tartan Noir.
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DCI Banks author Peter Robinson dies aged 72
... Tributes have been paid by fellow crime writers Val Mcdermid and Ian Rankin...
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Val McDermid ends Raith Rovers support over David Goodwillie deal
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DCI Banks author Peter Robinson dies aged 72
The Best -selling crime author Peter Robinson has died at the Age Of 72, his publisher has confirmed.
The Leeds-born novelist was known for the DCI Alan Banks series of books, set in Yorkshire.
The stories were adapted into an ITV series with Stephen Tompkinson , which ran from 2011 to 2017.
His publisher said he had died after a short illness on Tuesday. Tributes have been paid by fellow crime writers Val Mcdermid and Ian Rankin .
Robinson emigrated to Canada in 1974 after studying English Literature at the University of Leeds.
He lived in Toronto with his wife Sheila Halladay.
He remained true to his roots by setting his Dci Banks novels, The First of which was published in 1987, in the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale.
The series has sold More Than 8. 75m books, his UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton said.
In 2020, he was granted the Grand Master Award from The Crime Writers of Canada, having previously been given their Derrick Murdoch Award in 2010.
'Hellish news'His editor and managing editor of Hodder & Stoughton Carolyn Mays said he was a combination of " all The Best bits" of his Alan Banks character.
" Thoughtful and passionate about justice, he had fine taste and a totally down-to-earth view of The World , " She Said .
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Ms Mays said he had a wry and very dry humour and was a " Yorkshireman to the core".
" Much that he did was done without fanfare, like the scholarship he created at the University of Leeds, where he himself took his First Degree , to sponsor students through an English Literature and Creative Writing course. "
She Said their hearts were with His Family and friends and the " many thousands of fans who will miss his work so much".
" Most of all with his beloved wife Sheila, to whom he dedicated every single book he wrote. "
Ms Mays said his final work Standing in The Shadows was set to be published in March and was " perhaps his finest work yet".
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Paying tribute on Twitter, author Val Mcdermid : " Sad to hear of the death of Inspector Banks.
" We were both first published in 1987, and our paths often crossed, (usually accompanied by beer) in Canada and his beloved Yorkshire. Condolences to Sheila. "
While Ian Rankin also paid tribute: " Hellish news about my Dear Friend Peter Robinson . Spent many a wonderful evening in The Company of him and his partner Sheila. "
The organisers of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival to a " wonderful author and guest".
Robinson had appeared as a guest at The First festival 20 years ago.
Source of news: bbc.com