Photos now up from our Bay Tales 2024 show - just click on any of them for full screen goodness. Featuring Ann Cleeves Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social📚💀💙🖤💙📚 Vaseem Khan Nicci French Val McDermid Claire Douglas Chris Ewan & MANY more - like what you see? Join us in 2025! baytales.com/bay-tales-live…

Tom Gauld unveils some exciting new literary genres – cartoon theguardian.com/books/picture/…

It's true - can't wait! Saturday June 29th.

So...On Saturday, June 29, FunLovinCrimeWriters are playing quite a big show. Val McDermid Chris Brookmyre Stuart Neville #BloodLikeMine Doug Johnstone Luca Veste We cannot bloody WAIT!

Never in my wildest teenage dreams did I imagine I’d share the billing with my guitar and songwriting hero ⁦Ralph Mctell⁩!

No, really!

A week at Moniack Mhor with Louise Welsh AND Zoe Strachan ???
TAKE MY MONEY

This will be a great event. 25Apr 7:30pm at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews: Carol Adlam & Val McDermid will discuss Carol Adlam's graphic novel The Russian Detective, joined by Claire Whitehead of #Russian who'll talk about her project from which the book developed. More here: ow.ly/BnBV50Rb8Wf

ICYMI - crime drama #Traces , set in Dundee, has landed on BBC iPlayer!

Did you know that Prof Niamh Nic Daeid, Director of @LRCFS, was a scientific advisor to the show? In 2019 she welcomed stars martin compston & Molly Windsor to LRCFS to try out some forensic investigation tools!

She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth.

Val McDermid was in the office today signing lots of copies of her novel Queen Macbeth, publishing on 2nd May!

Pre-order your signed copy here:
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Spent a delightful morning ⁦birlinnbooks⁩ HQ in Edinburgh signing copies of Queen Macbeth for independent booksellers ahead of May 2 publication. (You can order them from your local indie or direct from ⁦birlinnbooks⁩)

Absolutely! All of her novels deal with identity in one way or another, I believe.
What I can never get my head round is that she was born the same year as my lovely gran, who could no more have explored these ideas than won the Nobel Prize…

The moment before the Firth of Forth hit me in the face…

Loving episode 2 of #Traces season 2 tonight on BBC One with #AndreaHart as series reg Janine Muir. All eps available BBC iPlayer - based on an idea by Val McDermid RED Production Co. Alibi Channel Casting: Andy Pryor CDG, CSA Ri McDaid-Wren 🏳️‍🌈 📺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

Come along and support a great team full of young women with skill, spirit and infectious enthusiam for their game.

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Lisa Jewell Harlan Coben Richard Osman 📚🐈‍⬛ Milly Johnson 🐕🐈‍⬛ Katie Fforde Jack Reacher Books Ann Cleeves The seventh book in the Karen Pirie series, Past Lying by Queen of Crime Val McDermid’s is a non mover at #2 #TOTP #TopOfTheLibraryPops

Binge watching #Traces from Series 1. Brilliant as expected from Val McDermid and martin compston

Dear Reader, join me and guests including lemn sissay OBE FRSL Richard Coles Cerys Matthews Rachelle Atalla Ian Rankin Val McDermid colson whitehead Neil Gaiman & shelves more on The Big Scottish Book Club. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

We've both now read the UK paperback of Past Lying & really enjoyed it. Having been told about various locations whilst working with the US publishers,it was nice to see how they were used & to reflect on COVID times in the city. Recommended - P&L

#EDINBURGH Val McDermid