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By Val McDermid

McDermid’s Forensics won the 2016 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Non-Fiction Work, and was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the Macavity Award for Best Critical/Biographical. It was also selected as an Amazon Best Book of the Month and an Amazon Best Science Book of the Year, and was featured on NPR Weekend Edition.

Other awards include: the Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of crime writing; the Theakston’s Old Peculier Award for outstanding contribution to fiction; the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Awards; the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award; and the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Release date: Jul 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9780802146182

Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. 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. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.