The Vanishing Point
My Granny is a Pirate
The Retribution
Trick of the Dark
Fever of the Bone
A Darker Domain
Beneath the Bleeding
The Grave Tattoo
Stranded
The Torment of Others
Hostage to Murder
The Distant Echo
The Last Temptation
Killing The Shadows
A Place of Excecution
Star Struck
The Writing on the Wall
Wire in the Blood
Booked For Murder
Blue Genes
The Mermaids Singing
Clean Break
A Suitable Job For A Woman
Crack Down
Kick Back
Union Jack
Dead Beat
Final Edition
Common Murder
Report for Murder
Interviews
Links to interviews
Live Interview with Val - BBC Radio Manchester - Monday 19 November 2012
Val is being interviewed live on BBC Radio Manchester, LGBT Citizen at 21.40 on Monday night.
Listen live or via the Internet – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7cl
My Secret Life: Val McDermid, 57, author
The Independent Magazine - Saturday 27 October 2012
‘I wanted to be Joni Mitchell’ – Things you might not know about Val…
Interview with Val - Manchester Evening News - 13 October 2012
Val is interviewed in Saturday’s Weekend supplement of the Manchester Evening News
Val featured for ‘My Favourite Teacher’ – 05 October 2012
One teacher knew the author wanted to go to Oxford, so he helped her by offering up his free time and his library.
Times Educational Supplement Scotland
Val is interviewed on The Morning Show Global Toronto – 01 October 2012
Val is busy promoting her new book The Vanishing Point in the US and Canada.
Profile interview with Val – 15 September 2012
Val looks beyond The Vanishing Point
The Herald
‘Friday Night, Saturday Morning’ – 14 September 2012
Author Val McDermid Takes a Breath of Fresh Air
The Scottish writer talks to The Wall Street Journal Europe about how she starts her weekend.
Wall Street Journal Europe
“I’m the poster girl for violence.” Profile interview with Val – 1 September 2012
The Times, Saturday Review
Online video interview with Val and Sue Black in Edinburgh – 20 August 2012
Crime writer Val McDermid, best known for creating Wire in the Blood detective Carol Jordan and criminal psychologist Tony Hill, and Professor Sue Black, of the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, talk to Xan Brooks about dismemberment, their bid to make forensic science more accessible, and their Million for a Morgue project – which includes a killer cookbook
Val talks to The Journal – 26 March 2012
SCOTTISH-born Val McDermid is one of the UK’s leading crime writers and has a home in Alnmouth on the Northumberland coast…
Val talks to Savidge Reads – 01 March 2012
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with the lovely Val McDermid for a good long coffee and catch up thanks to the joys of twitter and knowing she was in the vicinity…
An Exclusive Interview – Harrogate International Festival - 16 November 2011
During the madness and mayhen that was the 2011 Festival, journalist Sonia Kilvington caught up with international bestselling crime writer Val McDermid, whose novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Val in Paris – 22 April 2011
An interview Val did with Bernard Lehut on French radio (external link – audio)
Chiller-thriller writer tackles Oxford - 23 September 2010
From the Oxford Times: Thriller writer Val McDermid has a soft spot for Oxford. It is the setting for her latest blood-thirsty novel Trick of the Dark, and she says her time as a student here in the 1970s left her with a love of detective fiction.
Niche Off The Leash – 12 September 2010
Val McDermid on progress in lesbian fiction
A decade ago, she was told that writing a novel with a lesbian theme would be ‘commercial suicide’. Now, gay writers are mainstream. Here, Val McDermid charts the cultural shift that began with Radclyffe Hall
First Tuesday Book Club – 12 September 2010
Val takes part in a discussion about Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird (external link – audio)
Scotsman.com – 04 September 2010
Val McDermid tells David Robinson how a sexual awakening at Oxford helped define her life as a writer
The Perception of Crime Fiction – 10 January 2010
Val talks to Julian Maynard-Smith from crimetime.co.uk about crime fiction.
