Val McDermid is the author of twenty-four bestselling novels, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over ten million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recippient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lamda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She has ... Learn more