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1979 by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
She's hunting for a killer story . . . 1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Su ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
There's nothing like a killer story . . .1989. The world is changing, and Allie Burns is still on the front line, covering the stories that count.Although Allie is no longer an investigative journalist, her instincts are sharper than ever. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's mo ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Allie Burns 2 | Reading Level: very good
It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the me ...Show more
A Darker Domain (#2 Karen Pirie) by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Detective Karen Pirie
Val McDermid, creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history. Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a m ...Show more
Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection by Val McDermid
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered ...Show more
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Wellcome Collection
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of h ...Show more
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tony Hill and Carol Jord Ser. Book 1 | Reading Level: near fine
Val McDermid is an award-winning, crime-writing powerhouse, and now she returns to her explosive, thrilling series featuring psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan in her latest How The Dead Speak With Tony behind bars and Carol finally out of road as a cop, he's finding unexpected out ...Show more
Past Lying (Karen Pirie Mystery #7) by Val McDermid
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University ...Show more
Past Lying: The twisty new Karen Pirie thriller, now a major ITV series by Val McDermid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh Universit ...Show more
Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the fifth book in the critically acclaimed Darkland Tales series from Polygon Val McDermid plunges into medieval Scotland. Overturning Shakespeare's propaganda, the reader will encounter a new Lady Macbeth amidst a web of vicious intrigue. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a wom ...Show more
Resistance: A Graphic Novel by Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
A gritty, dark tale of infectious disease gone wrong - the timely graphic novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Val McDermid. It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people descend on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. At first, a spot of rain seems to be the o ...Show more
Still Life by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'The bodies never stay buried forever...'On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to r ...Show more