For the avid reader, discerning collector, real crime fiction and Val McDermid - fan,
a new, signed, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Val McDermid
Christmas is Murder
A Chilling Short Story Collection
Sphere, London / UK, 2020
"The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales.
From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver
birch tree, to an author who is haunted by the spiteful presence of a
jealous writing partner, the characters McDermid conjures are enigmatic
and dangerous, never above suspicion.
Follow Tony Hill and Carol Jordan as they track a deadly killer who is
preparing to strike on Christmas Day, and lose yourself in a festive
exclusive – a recently unearthed case for a classic detective duo, set
as the lights are going out across Europe.
These evocative, atmospheric tales will shock and delight. This is
the perfect book to curl up with as the frosty winter draws in and each
night gets darker than the last, written by one of our greatest living
crime writers." (littlebrown.co.uk)
"Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been
translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over seventeen
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 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 Visiting Professor at the University of
Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between
Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife." (littlebrown.co.uk)