Val McDermid
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
22) The grave tattoo
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a body appears on the hillside, the people of Lake District believe that it's Fletcher Christian.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...
24) Broken ground
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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?a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems. And as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
484 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Criminal profiler Tony Hill and his ally DCI Carol Jordan are back in a terrifying psychological thriller to track down the truth about an ever-increasing series of unspeakable crimes that begin with the murder of a Bradfield soccer player. Are they terrorist attacks, a personal vendetta ... or something even more sinister?
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill's worst nightmare--a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it's just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people--victims...
27) Out of bounds
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its...
28) Northanger Abbey
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
Bywater Books 1st ed.
Physical Desc
397 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda's mother Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay's history to be very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna turns to...
Author
Series
Lindsay Gordon mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Spinsters Ink
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 438 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.
33) Past lying
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
Author
Series
Lindsay Gordon mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Spinster Ink
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
35) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Zoe Meadows is on a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers for a weekend of music and camping. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival ends and attendees scatter across England,...
36) Mermaids singing
Publisher
Lance Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Dr. Tony Hill is called upon to help the police solve a series of brutal murders in the northern English town of Bradfield.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (344 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (341 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.