My granny is a pirate! She's sailed the seven seas. She captured many pirate ships But was always home for tea. When a family secret about Granny is revealed, we discover all about her fiercesome pirate reputation and her swashbuckling ways - from making other rogueish pirates walk the plank to sing[...]

"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 Review"Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the [...]

Award-winning Val McDermid follows her bestselling Trick of the Dark with another gripping standalone thriller.[...]

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones. As Karen's investigation gathers momentum, she is drawn deeper into a world of intrigue and betrayal, spanni[...]

Internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid is one of the most dependable professionals in the mystery and thriller business, whose acutely suspenseful, seamlessly plotted novels have riveted millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, "The Skeleton Road," she delivers a gripping standal[...]

Snap decisions can be fatal . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the ch[...]

"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 Review"Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the [...]

En hel by er i sorg.Først dør stjernespilleren på fotballaget i det legene ganske snart skjønner er et kaldblodig giftmord, og deretter går en bombe av på en fullpakket fotballstadion. I Bradfield er det plutselig mange døde å sørge over. Og spekulasjonene går høyt: Er det en vendetta mot[...]

Vinteren 1963: To barn er sporløst forsvunnet. Myra Hindley og Ian Bradley har startet på sin morderiske løpebane. En iskald ettermiddag i desember forsvinner et barn til. Alison Carter forsvinner fra Scardale, et lite, isolert landsbysamfunn i Derbyshire. I Scardale er det som om tiden har ståt[...]

Tiden er i ferd med å renne ut for Donna Doyle. Livredd og desperat klamrer hun seg til livet. Hjemme forsøker en fortvilet mor å forklare politiet at Donna ikke er ei slik jente som ville stikke av til London. Men politiet har sett det før, de unge jentene som ikke kan bli voksne fort nok, de g[...]

Val McDermid har skrevet en drivende psykologisk thriller der mytteriet på Bounty er roten til de onde gjerninger som skjer i dag.Sommerregnet i en liten landsby midt i England avdekker et lik med underlige tatoveringer. Spekulasjonene om hvordan liket er havnet akkurat der er fantasifulle. Halvgle[...]