Imatge de l'autor

Val McDermid

Autor/a de The Mermaids Singing

94+ obres 25,279 Membres 946 Ressenyes 71 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it mostra'n més into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Mimsy Moller / literature.britishcouncil.org

Sèrie

Obres de Val McDermid

The Mermaids Singing (1995) 1,897 exemplars
A Place of Execution (1999) 1,708 exemplars
The Distant Echo (2003) 1,489 exemplars
The Wire in the Blood (1997) 1,428 exemplars
The Grave Tattoo (2006) 1,227 exemplars
The Last Temptation (2002) 1,196 exemplars
The Torment of Others (2005) 1,150 exemplars
A Darker Domain (2008) 1,090 exemplars
Killing the Shadows (2000) 1,040 exemplars
Beneath the Bleeding (2007) 847 exemplars
Fever of the Bone (2009) 766 exemplars
The Retribution (2011) 654 exemplars
Northanger Abbey (2014) 552 exemplars
The Skeleton Road (2014) 550 exemplars
Trick of the Dark (2010) 525 exemplars
Dead Beat (1998) 503 exemplars
Out of Bounds (2016) 466 exemplars
Broken Ground (2016) 445 exemplars
Cross and Burn (2013) 444 exemplars
Splinter the Silence (2015) 416 exemplars
Blue Genes (1996) 403 exemplars
Kick Back (1993) 380 exemplars
Report for Murder (1987) 373 exemplars
Clean Break (1995) 370 exemplars
Still Life (2020) 358 exemplars
1979 (2021) 354 exemplars
Insidious Intent (2017) 352 exemplars
Crack Down (1994) 349 exemplars
The Vanishing Point (2012) 335 exemplars
Star Struck (1998) 318 exemplars
How the Dead Speak (2019) 281 exemplars
Common Murder (1989) 276 exemplars
Union Jack (1993) 243 exemplars
Booked for Murder (1996) 223 exemplars
Final Edition (1991) 217 exemplars
Hostage to Murder (2003) 203 exemplars
1989 (2022) 189 exemplars
Past Lying (2023) 112 exemplars
Cleanskin (2006) 104 exemplars
Stranded (2005) 72 exemplars
My Granny Is a Pirate (2012) 36 exemplars
Resistance (2021) 28 exemplars
Dead Beat | Kick Back (1976) 28 exemplars
Life's Too Short (2010) 24 exemplars
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future (2020) — Editor — 16 exemplars
Final Edition | Union Jack (2018) 14 exemplars
Crack Down | Clean Break (2018) 13 exemplars
Blue Genes | Clean Break (2005) 12 exemplars
Footloose [short story] (2019) 10 exemplars
My Scotland (2019) 10 exemplars
Blue Genes | Star Struck (2018) 8 exemplars
Crack Down | Star Struck (2004) 7 exemplars
Mission Mini (2002) 4 exemplars
Deadheading 2 exemplars
The Long Black Veil 2 exemplars
Ghost Writer (2013) 1 exemplars
La route du sud 1 exemplars
Cuentos inéditos — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Happy Holidays (2011) 1 exemplars
El cuerpo tatuado 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Northanger Abbey (1817) — Introducció, algunes edicions21,479 exemplars
El cant del cucut (2013) — Pròleg, algunes edicions9,766 exemplars
El misteri de les set esferes / Agatha Christie ; versió catalana d'Antoni Vicens (1929) — Introducció, algunes edicions2,874 exemplars
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) — Introducció, algunes edicions2,851 exemplars
The Singing Sands (1952) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,457 exemplars
L'home que es va esfumar (1966) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,382 exemplars
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories (2016) — Pròleg, algunes edicions741 exemplars
Marple: Twelve New Stories (2022) — Col·laborador — 482 exemplars
The Library Book (2012) — Col·laborador — 393 exemplars
MatchUp (2017) — Col·laborador — 311 exemplars
Naked Came the Phoenix: A Serial Novel (2001) — Col·laborador — 305 exemplars
Inherit the Dead (2013) — Col·laborador — 290 exemplars
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Col·laborador — 280 exemplars
The Best British Mysteries 2005 (2005) — Col·laborador — 127 exemplars
Tart Noir (2002) — Col·laborador — 110 exemplars
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (2007) — Pròleg, algunes edicions78 exemplars
The Best British Mysteries (2003) — Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
OxCrimes (2014) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Bloody Scotland (2018) — Col·laborador — 66 exemplars
The Best British Mysteries 2006 (2005) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries (2008) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
P. S. Ich töte dich: 13 Zehn-Minuten-Thriller (2010) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories (1994) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 (2010) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Mysterious Pleasures (2003) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9 (2012) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Romance for Life (2006) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas (2004) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
A Merry Band of Murderers (2006) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Deadlier: 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women (2017) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
AZ Murder Goes Classic: Current Crimewriters Revisit Past Masters (1997) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Afraid of the Christmas Lights: An Anthology of Crime Stories (2020) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Killer Women: Crime Club Anthology #1 (2016) — Pròleg — 13 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 (2014) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing (2012) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Crime in the City (2004) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Ink and Daggers (2023) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
It's OK to Be Gay (2013) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Murder Squad (2001) — Pròleg, algunes edicions3 exemplars
Vrouwen onder hoogspanning (1995) 2 exemplars
Ausgezeichnete Morde (2016) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2002/01 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

Etiquetat

Anglaterra (967) Anglès (261) antologia (201) assassinat (402) Audiollibre (286) Austen (295) britànic (757) clàssic (961) clàssics (1,103) Crim (2,214) detectiu (548) Escòcia (452) Ficció (5,916) Ficció criminal (1,043) gothic (409) James Bond (283) Jane Austen (479) Kindle (596) Literatura (532) literatura anglesa (389) Literatura britànica (402) Llegit (733) Llibre electrònic (633) Londres (269) misteri (4,129) no llegit (246) novel·la (815) own (245) pendent de llegir (3,222) police procedural (196) Regency (227) Regne Unit (198) Relats curts (346) Romanç (695) segle XIX (584) series (333) Suspens (300) sàtira (234) thriller (943) Tony Hill (283)

Coneixement comú

Membres

Converses

Chat a Book Discussion : The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (març 2017)

Ressenyes

Liked the interstitials about the bounty better than the book itself, no real surprises, nothing that made you rush from page to page. I didn't like the implications about wordsworth, so perhaps that tainted it on me.
 
Marcat
cspiwak | Hi ha 43 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
This was a Barnes & Noble Free Fridays selection back in September that I've just got around to reading. While it is book 7 in the series, the author provides enough back story that it's very easy to follow along. I love her writing style as well as the characters in the book. I would definitely be interested in going back and reading the previous 6 books in this series.
 
Marcat
thatnerd | Hi ha 39 ressenyes més | Mar 2, 2024 |
 
Marcat
BooksInMirror | Hi ha 39 ressenyes més | Feb 19, 2024 |
i really didn't like this book, and won't read any more of this writer. admittedly, the resolution of the mystery was ingenious (and in truth the author wrote it from a story that someone else told her, so no wonder it never really felt like hers) but i solved it at the beginning of the book, which i try never to do. meanwhile the writing was stiff, and so were the characters too. others may of course have enjoyed it thoroughly, and i wish them well.
 
Marcat
macha | Hi ha 40 ressenyes més | Feb 7, 2024 |

Llistes

Premis

Potser també t'agrada

Autors associats

Jo Sharp Editor
Doris Styron Translator
Sally Carman Narrator
Tamsin Greig Narrator
Paul Higgins Narrator
Dennis Lehane Contributor
Jerome Charyn Contributor
Saul Reichlin Narrator
Gerard Doyle Narrator
Sophie Brinkman Translator
Wouter van der Struys Cover designer
Michael Page Narrator, Narrator
Will Lee Cover artist
Jen Sheckels Cover artist, Cover designer
Manes H. Grünwald Übersetzer
Marek Allvee Kujundaja.
Cordula Schmidt Cover designer
Paddy Glynn Narrator
Paddy Glynn Narrator
Roy Bishop Photographer
Peter Capaldi Narrator
Micaela Alcaino Cover designer
Henning Kolstad Translator
Olga Grlic Cover designer
Kate Reading Narrator
Laura Wilson Producer
Eilidh Fraser Narrator
Johan Nilsson Translator
Eric Moreau Traduction
Edwin Krijgsman Translator
Sarah Barron Narrator
Gies Aalberts Translator
Pablo Hidalgo cover photo stone alley
MJC Design Cover designer
Charles Rue Woods Cover designer
Becca Fox Cover lettering
Marc Cohen Cover designer
Davina Porter Narrator
Willem Havenaar Cover photo skull
Shutterstock.com Cover image
Becca Fox Design Cover designer
Kirsten Reimers Translator
Ian Rankin Foreword
Sara Paretsky Foreword
Louise Oliver Narrator
John Kazek Narrator

Estadístiques

Obres
94
També de
51
Membres
25,279
Popularitat
#828
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
946
ISBN
1,599
Llengües
24
Preferit
71

Gràfics i taules