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...
by vjbooks | Jan 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(connpost.com, jan. 16, Joe Meyers) With so many “literary” novelists turning inward and away from broader social concerns and traditional storytelling, readers have been enjoying crime fiction in larger numbers each year. A genre that was once viewed as...
by vjbooks | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(rafemcgregor.blogspot.com, Dec 19, 2008) More news on next year’s CrimeFest (14 – 17 May 2009) from Myles Allfrey and Adrian Muller… MORE AUTHORS CONFIRMED We are beyond chuffed to announce that Michael Connelly will be the International Guest of...
