Crime writer Val McDermid has told how covering tragedies such as the Lockerbie bombing as a journalist have left her mentally scarred.
The best-selling author says the year 1989, when she wrote about Lockerbie and the Hillsborough disaster, was a turning point in her life – and that’s why 1989 is the name of her new novel.
The 67-year-old, who worked for our sister paper The People for a decade, said: “After Hillsborough and Lockerbie I thought I can’t do this indefinitely.
