Karen Pirie is a British crime drama television series based on Inspector Karen Pirie series of novels by Val McDermid. In McDermid's crafty stand-alone thriller, psychiatrist Charlotte "Charlie" Flint gives expert testimony at the Leicester murder trial of Bill Hopton that contributes to his acquittal. When Hopton Continue reading » After graduation, she became a journalist and began her literary career as a dramatist. Her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery occurred in 1987. [3]

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Raith Rovers ladies' first match since breakaway". BBC News. 6 February 2022 . Retrieved 28 June 2022. Lauren Lyle to star as Karen Pirie in ITV cold case murder drama, based on acclaimed author Val McDermid’s The Distant Echo, adapted by Emer Kenny.If you still haven't absorbed the fact that Val McDermid is writing at the top of anyone's game, here's another chance to join the celebration...her clean, crisp writing, especially about crime science, might just remind you of the early books of P.D. James.” — Chicago Tribune The series is based on Val McDermid’s first Karen Pirie novel The Distant Echo, and in the first episode Karen is tasked with reopening an historic murder investigation that has been the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast. In this gruesomely fascinating book, former journalist and renowned suspense novelist McDermid (The Skeleton Road) explains the science behind solving crimes. Based on interviews with crime Continue reading »

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McDermid is a radical feminist and socialist. [36] [29] She has incorporated feminism into some of her novels. [37] Works [ edit ] Lindsay Gordon series [ edit ] Pensioner in court over vendetta with crime writer Val McDermid". The Northern Echo. 9 July 2013 . Retrieved 31 July 2013.This time out 4 friends walking home at 3 in the morning stumble across a dead girl on the side of a hill. Macdonald, Stuart (25 October 2016). "Author Val McDermid gets married to long-term partner Jo Sharp". Daily Record. Valarie McDermid, FRSE , FRSL (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, in a grim sub-genre known as Tartan Noir.

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Resistance: A Graphic Novel (2021), illustrated by Kathryn Briggs ( Profile Books/ Wellcome Collection, London, ISBN 978-1-78816-3552) Karen Pirie has been commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama, Polly Hill. Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair Jones will oversee production from the channel’s perspective. Cunningly plotted...McDermid administers the venom drop by drop...Individually the characters are sensitively drawn. Collectively, they present the inscrutable face of closed-off communities so terrified of change they would kill for peace.” — New York Times Book ReviewBlood. The realization dawned at the same instant that the snow in his ears melted and allowed him to hear the faint but stertorous wheeze of her breath. Twenty-five years later, the police started a cold case review; technological advances should help convict Rosie’s killer. Within weeks, two men who found Rosie’s body are dead, and another has been beaten to within an inch of his life. The police, however, are reluctant to connect the incidents. The only way the remaining witness can survive is to find out who murdered Rosie all those years ago. Review

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Anna Burnside (2 September 2016). "Straight-talking Val McDermid lifts lid on her latest novel and why she's the badass woman of the week". Daily Record . Retrieved 25 October 2016. McDermid was a lifelong fan of Raith Rovers football club, her father having worked as a scout for the club. [11] [13] [14] In 2010, she sponsored the McDermid Stand at Stark's Park, the club's ground in Kirkcaldy, in honour of her father. [14] Adapted by Emer Kenny (Harlots, Save Me Too) who will also take the role of Karen’s friend River Wilde, Karen Pirie also stars Chris Jenks (Sex Education) as Jason ‘Mint’ Murray and Zach Wyatt (Blithe Spirit) as DS Phil Parhatka. The Second Murder at the Vicarage in Marple, Twelve New Mysteries (2022) p.33-52, ( HarperCollins, New York, ISBN 978-0-06-313605-2) Val McDermid has a new series. Ok new for me. The Tony Hills books were great, and now with this first book in the Karen Pirie series Val McDermid just keeps getting better.A few more sly, old-fashioned whodunits like this and she'll join the sturdy ranks of the queens of crime, on course to become Dame Val or Baroness McDermid' Sunday Times