Val McDermid
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape the "women's stories" to which her editors confine her. Striking up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan, she begins covering international tax fraud, then gets wind of a group of Scottish ultranationalists aiming to cause mayhem ahead of the...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes.
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 9
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 10
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate--but...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 8
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The crime fighting team of clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan investigate a serial killer who is targeting women who look suspiciously like Carol.
Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they're not talking doesn't mean the killing stops. Someone is killing women who bear an unsettling resemblance to Jordan. And when the evidence begins to...
9) Still life
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
10) Past lying
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
11) 1989
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie,...
13) A darker domain
Author
Series
Karen Pirie volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
More than twenty years after the 1984 national miners' strike in Scotland, Cold Case Review Team Inspector Karen Pirie stumbles across new evidence that links the cases of a missing strikebreaker and a kidnapping gone wrong.
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 6
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
15) The retribution
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan struggle to recapture celebrity sociopath Jack Vance, who has broken out of prison with the intention of exacting violent revenge.
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After being barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint agrees to help her old professor at Oxford solve the mystery surrounding the death of her daughter's husband--a case that leads her into the arcane world of Oxford colleges.
18) Northanger Abbey
Author
Series
Austen project volume 4
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.