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Kathryn Bromwich

On my radar: Val McDermid’s cultural highlights

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Val McDermid.
Val McDermid. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex/Shutterstock

Born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1955, award-winning crime writer Val McDermid released her first novel in 1987 and has since sold more than 17m books internationally, becoming known as the Queen of Crime for her Dr Tony Hill series, which was adapted into the ITV drama Wire in the Blood. She will be speaking at Val McDermid: A Life in Writing on 21 August at the Edinburgh international book festival and her latest novel, Past Lying, part of the Inspector Karen Pirie series, will be published by Sphere on 12 October. McDermid lives in Edinburgh with her wife, geography professor Jo Sharp.

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