Val McDermid from I Cannot Live Without Books

1979 (Allie Burns Series, Book #1) by Val McDermid It's only January, and the year 1979 has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. For Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news is the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, a chance to escape the "women's stories" to which her newsroom editors have confined her. Striking up an alliance with… Read more about this item

1989 (Allie Burns Series, Book #2) by Val McDermid A stunning return to Val McDermid's acclaimed historical crime series, 1989 is a full-body immersion in a world gone by and an acute reminder of how history determines the present. Allie Burns, a journalist with a decade's worth of experience under her belt, is running the northern news operation of Scotland's tabloid, Sunday… Read more about this item

Broken Ground (Karen Pirie Series, Book #5) by Val McDermid Cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet in this gripping and masterfully plottest novel. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise --… Read more about this item

Still Life (Karen Pirie Series, Book #6) by Val McDermid In this installment of her popular series featuring DCI Karen Kirie, Britain's "Queen of Crime," Val McDermid takes us into the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of Forth, Karen is called in to investigate. She… Read more about this item