Val McDermid

Val McDermid (2007)

Val McDermid (born June 4, 1955 ) is a Scottish writer .

Life

McDermid is from Kirkcaldy . There she spent a lot of time with her grandparents in the mining village of East Wemyss. She attended St. Hilda's College in Oxford at the age of 17 . She was the first student there to come from a state school in Scotland. During her studies she was chairwoman of the student council. After graduation, she became a journalist and was also successful as a playwright. However, it was not until 1987 that she had her first success as a novelist with Die Reportage . She lived with her son (* 2002), her partner and three cats in Alnmouth in Northumberland in north east England. In 2014 she moved back to Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh .

McDermid's best-known characters are the lesbian journalist Lindsay Gordon and the private detective Kate Brannigan. A third series has the profiler Tony Hill and DI Carol Jordan as the main actors and forms the template for the television series Hautnah - The Hill Method ( Wire in the Blood , 2002–2008). Since 2003 there has been a fourth main character with her own series, Karen Pirie. Pirie is the Detective Chief Inspector with the Scottish Police and heads the HCU, the Historic Cases Unit.

Val McDermid repeatedly addresses homosexuality in her novels. She is also committed to the equality of homosexuals. She was and is a supporter of the referendum on Scottish independence .

Awards

• 1995 CWA Gold Dagger for The Mermaids Singing
• 1998 Prix ​​du Roman d'Aventures for Mauvais signes (= Starstruck )
• 2000 Barry Award - Best British Detective Novel for A Place of Execution
• 2001 Dilys Award for A Place of Execution
• 2001 Anthony Award for A Place of Execution
• 2001 Macavity Award - Best Novel for A Place of Execution
• 2004 Barry Award - Best British Detective Novel for The Distant Echo
• 2010 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award , the highest award of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for the life's work of an author to date
• 2011 Barry Award - Best Paperback Novel category for Fever of the Bone
• 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Fever of the Bone in the Lesbian Mystery category
• 2016 Anthony Award for Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime for Best Nonfiction Book
• 2018 Rheinbacher glass dagger for the entire work

bibliography

Lindsay Gordon series

1. 1987 - Report for Murder → Die Reportage, German by Sonja Hruby; Hamburg, Berlin: Argument 1990. ISBN 3-88619-513-9 → also: Die Reportage; New version of the translation by Else Laudan; Hamburg: Argument 2007. ISBN 3-86754-003-9
2. 1989 - Common Murder → Das Nest, German by Sonja Hruby; Hamburg, Berlin: Argument 1991. ISBN 3-88619-521-X
3. 1991 - Final Edition → Der Fall, German by Sonja Hruby and Silvia Nemenz; Hamburg, Berlin: Argument 1992. ISBN 3-88619-533-3
4. 1993 - Union Jack → Der Aufsteiger, German by Elke Franz-Gaisser; Hamburg: Argument 1994. ISBN 3-88619-559-7
5. 1996 - Booked for Murder → Das Manuskript, German by Sabine Messner; Hamburg: Argument 1998. ISBN 3-88619-835-9
6. 2003 - Hostage to Murder → The Taking of Hostages, German by Sonja Finck ; Hamburg: Argument 2003. ISBN 3-88619-873-1 (reading sample under web links)

Kate Brannigan series

1. 1992 - Dead Beat → Mörderbeat in Manchester, German by Ute Tanner; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1994. ISBN 3-596-11711-9 ; also: blown off, same translation; Hamburg: Argument 1999. ISBN 3-88619-850-2
2. 1993 - Kick Back → Kickback, German by Brigitta Merschmann; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1995. ISBN 3-596-11712-7 ; also: air gardens, same translation; Hamburg: Argument 2000. ISBN 3-88619-854-5
3. 1994 - Crack Down → Crackdown, German by Brigitta Merschmann; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1995. ISBN 3-596-12747-5 ; also: Unscrupulous, same translation; Hamburg: Argument 2000. ISBN 3-88619-856-1
4. 1994 - Clean Break → Clean Break, German by Brigitta Merschmann; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 1997. ISBN 3-596-13154-5
5. 1996 - Blue Genes → Das Kuckucksei, German by Sabine Messner; Hamburg: Argument 1997. ISBN 3-88619-595-3
6. 1998 - Star Struck → The Law of the Series, German by Sabine Messner; Hamburg: Argument 1999. ISBN 3-88619-842-1

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series

1. 1995 - The Mermaids Singing → Das Lied der Sirenen, German by Manes H. Grünwald; Munich: Droemer Knaur 1997. ISBN 3-426-60557-0
2. 1997 - The Wire in the Blood → final panel, German by Klaus Fröbe; Munich: Droemer Knaur 1999. ISBN 3-426-60941-X
3. 2002 - The Last Temptation → Ein kalter Strom, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Droemer Knaur 2003. ISBN 3-426-62330-7
4. 2004 - The Torment of Others → Deadly Words, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Knaur 2005. ISBN 3-426-62912-7
5. 2007 - Beneath the Bleeding → Creeping Poison, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Knaur 2008. ISBN 978-3-426-50072-9
6. 2009 - Fever of the Bone → Patermord, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Droemer Knaur 2010. ISBN 978-3-426-50726-1
7. 2011 - The Retribution → Vergeltung, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Droemer Knaur 2012. ISBN 978-3-426-51181-7
8. 2013 - Cross and Burn → Eiszeit, German by Doris Styron; Munich: Knaur TB 2014. ISBN 978-3-426-51519-8
9. 2016 - Splinter the Silence → Schwarzes Netz, German by Doris Stryron; Munich: Knaur TB 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-51967-7
10. 2018 - Insidious Intent → Rachgier, German by Doris Stryron; Munich: Knaur TB 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-52181-6
11. 2019 - How the Dead Speak → Der Knochengarten, Knaur TB 2020, ISBN 978-3-426-52491-6

Karen Pirie series

1. 2003 - The Distant Echo → Echo of a Winter Night, German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-19668-9
2. 2008 - A Darker Domain → Nacht unter Tag, German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-19844-5
3. 2014 - The Skeleton Road → The long breath of the past, German by Doris Styron. Droemer HC Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-28134-5
4. 2016 - Out of Bounds → The sense of death, German by Doris Styron, Droemer Verlab, 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-28182-6
5. 2018 - Broken Ground

Other

• 1994 - A Suitable Job for a Woman - Inside the World of Women Private Eyes (reports)
• 1999 - A Place of Execution → A place for eternity . Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-19534-8
• 2000 - Killing the Shadows → The inventors of death , German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-426-19567-4
• 1997 - The Writing on the Wall → Abgekupfert (Crime Stories), German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-62092-8
• 2005 - Stranded ( short stories)
• 2006 - The Grave Tattoo → The Moor of Forgetting , German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-19735-9
• 2010 - Trick of the Dark → All Vengeance wants eternity , German by Doris Styron. Knaur Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50993-7
• 2012 - The Vanishing Point → Der Verrat , German by Doris Styron. Droemer Knaur Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-19969-5
• 2014 - Northanger Abbey → Northanger Abbey , German by Doris Styron. HarperCollins, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-95967-018-0 .

Audiobooks (excerpt)

• 2004: Echo of a winter night , Lübbe Audio Bergisch Gladbach ISBN 978-3-7857-1440-9 (abridged, 5 CDs read by Dietmar Bär 354 min.)
• 2006: "A place for eternity", Random House Audio ISBN 978-3-86604-182-0 (4 CDS read by Hannelore Hoger )
• 2008: Moor des Vergessens , Argon Verlag Berlin ISBN 978-3-86610-445-7 (6 CDs read by Dietmar Bär 463 min.)
• 2009: Nacht unter Tag , Argon Verlag Berlin ISBN 978-3-86610-637-6 (6 CDs read by Andrea Sawatzki 443 min.)
• 2012: Patermord , Knaur Der Hörverlag (download version, read by Stefan Wilkening 949 min.)
• 2012: All revenge wants eternity , Argon Verlag Berlin ISBN 978-3-8398-1128-3 (6 CDs read by Andrea Sawatzki 437 min.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Val McDermid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Val McDermid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Val McDermid at Open Library
• German-language website of the author
  • English homepage
• Reading sample , from The Taking of Hostages (German)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hannah Ellis-Petersen: Val McDermid: "I'm working class - I wouldn't be able to go to Oxford now" ; The Guardian, Aug. 25, 2015; accessed on September 11, 2015.
2. ↑ Jenn Reese: 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. March 15, 2012, accessed March 27, 2019 . 
3. ↑ https://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/voreifel-und-vorgebirge/rheinbach/val-mcdermid-nnahm-rheinbacher-glasdolch-entgegen_aid-43913837