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Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over seventeen 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 Theakston 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.
‘A Scottish police inspector deals with forgeries and false identities in a new murder mystery in the superior series’ The New York Times
‘From a Diamond Dagger Award winner and multiple Edgar Award finalist, Still Life is a tightly plotted mystery featuring an investigator “whose unwavering confidence is tempered by a strong dose of kindness and sense of justice’ Booklist
‘There are few other crime writers in the same league.’ Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
‘McDermid remains unrivalled . . . brilliant’ Observer
‘Further evidence that her “Queen of Crime” status will not be challenged’ Scotsman
‘There aren’t many to touch her for insight into the minds of hunter and hunted’ Susan Hill
‘McDermid’s storytelling is as classy and compelling as ever’ Guardian
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