The Retribution

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011.

In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

Praise for Val McDermid "I love every word Val McDermid writes. If you haven't discovered her genius yet, you are in for a rare treat."--Harlan Coben "McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. [...] She's the best we've got."--"New York Times Book Review" "[McDermid's] work is taut, psychologically complex and so gripping that it puts your life on hold" - "The Times" (UK) "McDermid has become a whiz at generating breathless, crosscutting suspense."-- "GQ" "Smooth. Confident. Deeply satisfying. What else can you say about McDermid's writing...The Jordan-Hill relationship remains the star of the show... it's a match made in heaven amid hell on earth." -"Entertainment Weekly" (editor's choice) "Val McDermid is one of the bright lights of the mystery field."-- "The Washington Post" "One of my favorite authors, Val McDermid is an important writer--witty, never sentimental, taking us through mean streets w