Q and A with Professor Val McDermid

For your delight, edification, and enjoyment, here is our very special online Q and A with the Queen of modern crime fiction Professor Val McDermid. We are absolutely thrilled to be presenting this online event.

Filmed at Val’s home by her partner, Professor Jo Sharp, and using questions specially gathered from the users of WCL and beyond, the interview is a fascinating insightful and entertaining look into one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed writers on the planet.

About Professor Val McDermid

Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction and ‘Tartan Noir.’ Her novels have sold more than 16 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages worldwide. Her novels currently fall into four main series, featuring a host of memorable characters: As well as five standalone novels.

• The Lindsay Gordon books
• The Kate Brannigan books
• The DCI Karen Pirie series
• The Tony Hill / Carol Jordan series

Val has also written Non-fiction, short stories, and an award-winning children’s book. Her most recent release is the sixth DCI Karen Pirie novel, called Still Life.

Val McDermid has also won crime writing’s most prestigious award, the much-coveted Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, for her novel The Mermaids Singing. Along with her plethora of awards, she also holds an Honorary Fellowship from St Hilda’s College in Oxford — where she was the first student from a state school in Scotland ever to attend.

We have an extensive range of Val McDermid books available to borrow click here to view our entire collection.

You can find out more about Val’s activities (and find loads more criminally good recipes besides!) by visiting her website — valmcdermid.com.

We wish to extend to Professor Val McDermid and Professor Jo Sharp our deepest and most sincere thanks for sharing their time with us, and for such a fabulous interview — which you can now view below.