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Val McDermid (born June 4, 1955) is a Scottish crime writer. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: June 2004 in sports Deaths in June • 28 Anthony Buckeridge • 26 Naomi Shemer • 26 Yash Johar • 22 Bob Bemer • 22 Thomas Gold • 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco • 16 Thanom Kittikachorn • 10 Ray Charles • 5 Ronald Reagan...
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Biography McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student from a state school in Scotland (Kirkcaldy High School), and became President of the Junior Common Room. After graduation, she became a journalist, and had some success as a dramatist. However, her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery, did not appear until 1987. Kirkcaldy (IPA pronunciation: ) is the largest town in Fife, Scotland. ...
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Work McDermid's notable characters are a lesbian journalist, Lindsey Gordon; a private investigator, Kate Brannigan; and a psychologist, Tony Hill, who suffers from sexual dysfunction. Her books mainly fall into three series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, and, beginning in 1997, the Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series, the first entry in which, The Mermaids Singing, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill/Jordan series has been adapted for television under the name Wire in the Blood, featuring Robson Green. Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Wire In The Blood is an ITV television series which teams a university clinical psychologist, Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green), with a tough female Detective Inspector, Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris). ...
Robson Green with Francesca Annis as pictured on the DVD release of Reckless Robson Green (born December 18, 1964) is a British actor who first came to prominence in the BBC series Casualty, but made his name as Fusilier Dave Tucker of the Kings Fusiliers in Soldier Soldier. ...
McDermid considers her work to be Tartan Noir.[1] Tartan Noir is a form of crime fiction particular to Scotland and Scottish writers. ...
As well as her novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and often broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.[2] BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
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Personal life McDermid is a lesbian. She and her former partner share custody of their son Cameron (conceived to McDermid's former partner via donor insemination). [2][3] She lives in Manchester and Northumberland.[4] This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
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Publications
Lindsay Gordon mysteries - Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery (1987)
- Common Murder: The Second Lindsay Gordon Mystery (1989)
- Deadline for Murder: The Third Lindsay Gordon Mystery (1991)
- Conferences are Murder: The Fourth Lindsay Gordon Mystery UK title "Union Jack"(1993)
- Booked for Murder: The Fifth Lindsay Gordon Mystery (1996)
- Hostage to Murder: The Sixth Lindsay Gordon Mystery (2003)
Kate Brannigan mysteries - Dead Beat (1992)
- Kick Back (1993)
- Crack Down (1994)
- Clean Break (1995)
- Blue Genes (1996)
- Star Struck (1998)
- Half Life (TBA)
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan novels - The Mermaids Singing (1995)
- The Wire in the Blood (1997)
- The Last Temptation (2002)
- The Torment of Others (2004)
- Beneath the Bleeding (2007)
Standalone novels - A Place of Execution (1999)
- Killing the Shadows (2000)
- The Distant Echo (2003)
- Stranded: a collection of short fiction (2005)
- The Grave Tattoo (2005)
- A Darker Domain
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