Called in to investigate the disappearances of dozens of teenage girls across the country, young women whom the authorities believe may be runaways, criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan find themselves matching wits with ...

In Manchester, a brutal S&M killer is preying on the gay community, but the homophobic superintendent refuses to admit that the murders are linked. Inspector Carol Jordan and police psychologist Tony Hill are left on their own to sear...

The fifth book in Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon mystery opens with the 'accidental' death in London of bestselling author Penny Varnavides, one of Lindsay's oldest friends. When police learn that the bizarre conditions of Penny's deat...

Published in the U. S. for the first time The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and...

In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has become familiar with many branches of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science and the people who make sure that for murderers, there is no hiding pl...

"Heart wrenching. . . . McDermid delves ever more deeply into the psyches of the major characters . . . [and] excels in putting the reader at the center of the action. . . The Skeleton Road does an excellent job of wrangling with...

After summer rains uncover a corpse bearing tattoos like those of eighteenth-century seafarers, many residents of the English Lake District can’t help but wonder whether it’s the body of one of the town’s most legend...

When Manchester investigator Kate Brannigan and her boyfriend, Richard, go undercover to get the goods on car dealership fraud, Richard lands in jail, caught in the driver’s seat of a dangerous car theft ring that takes no priso...

Claire Oglivie asks journalist Lindsay Gordon to help her dig up evidence to get her former lover, Jackie Mitchell, released from prison. Jackie was wrongly convicted of murdering Alison Maxwell, who was once one of Lindsay's lovers. ...

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 th...

'Kate Brannigan's . . . a whirling dervish of tough toes and fine prose.'-The Washington Post Kate Brannigan is investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long, she's up to her neck in c...

'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buri...

'Kate Brannigan is a breath of fresh air.'-Publishers Weekly Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, who does for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago. When Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing son...

This police procedural is the fourth installment in the set of mysteries that inspired the British TV series THE WIRE IN THE BLOOD. Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan of the Bradfield Metropolitan Police once again teams with crim...

The fifth and sixth novels in the Lindsay Gordon series –gripping and thrilling page-turners, starring a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist'―from the number one bestseller Val McDermid

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanis...

“Crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around” ―The Times (U.K.) There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her b...

Report for MurderFreelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string inst...

"[McDermid's] work is taut, psychologically complex and so gripping that it puts your life on hold."-The Times (UK)"Masterfully handled, and McDermid's ability to wrong-foot the reader remains second to none: highly rec...

"McDermid is at the top of her form in this sizzling story. . . . You will not put this one down until the final sentence."-Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail"Hill and Jordan dominate as brilliantly as ever."-The ...

The third and fourth novels in the Lindsay Gordon series –gripping and thrilling page-turners, starring a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist'―from the number one bestseller Val McDermid.

"Long before our modern-day crime author draws a final, canny ace from her tartan sleeve, you'll have succumbed to the delights of Northanger a la McDermid."-The Boston GlobeNow in paperback, Val McDermid's Northanger Abbey ...

The first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed...

"Former detective Carol Jordan and profiler Tony Hill make a welcome return in this whiz-bang brain twister of an investigation into the suspicious deaths of several women that encompasses the ugly side of Internet trolls."-...

"Val McDermid is one of the bright lights of the mystery field."—The Washington Post"She's the best we've got."—The New York Times Book ReviewBarred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives ...

Psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill travels to Berlin to help his former partner Carol Jordan catch a globetrotting gangster. While he's there, Hill attempts to track down a European serial killer who has murdered a friend of his.

"Tightly plotted . . . McDermid applies her formidable intelligence and muscular style to the kind of urban crime novel that gives Scotland its tough rep and vigorous lingo . . . [A] superior series."―Marilyn Stasio, New Y...

Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business. In Blue Genes, Kate Brannigan’s not just having a ba...

Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester. As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that take...

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill has had a good run. He and police detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their caree...