Category Archives: Val McDermid

Val McDermid revisited

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

One of the luxuries I indulge in occasionally (or quite often, to be honest) is to reread favourite novels. This time I picked Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution. As my memory is completely unreliable, I often enjoy a mystery … Continue reading →

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Val McDermid, A Distant Echo (2003)

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

This psychological thriller is regarded as a stand-alone, but McDermid recycles police officers from other novels, e.g. Karen Pirie who reappears in “A Darker Domain” In 1978 Pretty young Rosie Duff is raped and stabbed and left to die in … Continue reading →

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Val McDermid, Star Struck (1998)

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

(I know this is not a review, but I also use my blog to keep track of what I read when so what you see is what you get). I read the 6th Kate Brannigan mystery in one day and … Continue reading →

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>Val McDermid, Dead Beat (1992)

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

> This book is the first Kate Brannigan mystery. The first line: “I swear one day I´ll kill him. Kill who? The man next door.” Not so unusual in a crime novel, perhaps. But the man next door is Kate´s … Continue reading →

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>Val McDermid, A Darker Domain (2008)

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

>Two of my three children snatched this Scottish stand-alone from my shelf before I got round to reading it myself, and afterwards they coaxed me to read it before anything else. The story begins in 2007 when a young woman … Continue reading →

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>Val McDermid, A Place of Execution (1999)

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

>This Scottish stand-alone is part of my loot from our holiday in Scotland. The plot begins when thirteen-year-old Alison Carter disappears from her home in Scardale, an isolated village in Derbyshire. Two children have disappeared from Manchester shortly before, but … Continue reading →

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>Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing (1995)

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

>This Scottish thriller is the first in the series about the psychologist Tony Hill and Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. I re-read it at a very fast pace without taking notes; hence the very short review. The setting is Bradfield, a … Continue reading →

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