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Val McDermid

Born

in Fife, Scotland

June 04, 1955

Website

http://www.valmcdermid.com/

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Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Crime

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Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven 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 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award.

She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.

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This Door of the Seas by Val McDermid & Jo Sharp

Published: 06 August 2026

The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future.

It took place on the other side of the world, amid the jungle-coastline at the junction between the continents of North and South America. And most of us know next to nothing about it.

Now it’s time to remedy that. Award-winning novelist Val McDer

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Average rating: 3.97 · 425,695 ratings · 35,184 reviews · 327 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 28,590 ratings — published 1995 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Distant Echo (Karen Pirie, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 24,464 ratings — published 2003 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 21,045 ratings — published 1997 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place of Execution 4.14 avg rating — 19,313 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6) 4.23 avg rating — 16,442 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 16,635 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie, #4) 4.20 avg rating — 14,224 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime 4.09 avg rating — 13,661 ratings — published 2014 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie, #5) 4.20 avg rating — 12,519 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 13,036 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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January 2020 General Poll

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

Which Crime, Mystery or Thriller would you like to read in January?

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

19 votes, 32.8%

The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid

14 votes, 24.1%

Black Out by Lisa Unger

13 votes, 22.4%

The Favourite Sister by Jessica Knoll

9 votes, 15.5%

Bitter Past by Caroline Fardig

3 votes, 5.2%

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