News...
The Retribution won a place on the longlist for the Green Carnation Prize 2011. Val's 25th novel appears on the thirteen-strong longlist alongside books by writers including Michael Cunningham, Jackie Kay, Ali Smith, Colm Toibin and Jeanette Winterson.
The Green Carnation Prize celebrates the best fiction and memoirs by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender writers.
Reviews...
Daily Mirror
"It's perhaps fitting that for McDermid's 25th novel she's revisited her most thrillingly murderous creation, Jacko Vance."
The Times
"Val McDermid's 25th novel is stunningly good, but it comes with a health warning. It is truly disturbing."
Irish Independent
"McDermid never pulls her punches in her graphic descriptions of the evils men (and women) inflict on each other."
Scotsman
"Her writing is taut, her plotting pacy… McDermid is particularly good at analysing human damage and its effects."
Sunday Express
"To write one brilliant book is hard. To write 25 is a miracle. That is what Val McDermid has achieved over the course of her career and it's why she is a much-loved legend in the literary world…the pace here is flawless and the various storylines are expertly interwoven…a superb crime novel." |
