by vjbooks | Apr 15, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Val McDermid is one author who knows exactly how to pull me into a story. In A Darker Domain, she sets the hook with just a couple of opening paragraphs that end with: “This is how it begins.” From that point on, I couldn’t put this book down. It’s June,...
by vjbooks | Feb 4, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Multi-award winning author Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and now lives in Manchester. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and was a journalist for sixteen years, but is now a full-time writer. She has written a non-fiction book...
by vjbooks | Feb 2, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The superb new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history – the national miners’ strike. It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy...
