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Val McDermid 2001

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Val McDermid

Introduction

In 2001 David Cunningham had one of those rare opportunities to interview Val McDermid about her life and writings: Enjoy!


Interview

Even for a city that rivals Glasgow in its reputation for being wet and grey, Manchester puts on a pretty impressive display the morning I arrive there to meet Val McDermid. The city centre - dominated by slab-like hotels and patrolled by ponderous trams - looks like the sort of urban stew where anything could happen: murder, drug-peddling, property scams, child pornography rings, dodgy fertility research. In Val McDermid's novels all these things, and more, do happen, investigated by her two main protagonists: private eye Kate Brannigan and journalist Lindsay Gordon.

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The Fever of the Bone

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Val McDermid
Genre
Crime
Fiction
Review

Well, where do I start with this one?! The problem for me is that I now picture the characters as the actors who play them in the TV series ‘Wire In The Blood' and because of this I find the idea of Tony and Carol having a relationship highly unlikely; however, if I concentrate on book characters I have built up in my imagination, the suggestion of their closeness is more likely.

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Wire in the Blood

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Val McDermid
Genre
Crime
Review

This is a crime novel, but dealt with in a very different way, from the perspective of a psychological profiler.  The way that this story is put together is fantastic and how the mind of Val McDermid has worked to produce this book is really astonishing, especially the way she has been able to enter the very warped and criminally devient mind - which to me is very frightening.

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