Beneath The Bleeding

Praise for 'Beneath the Bleeding': 'All the craft, panache and pace that we have come to expect from this outstanding writer! Vintage stuff: unplug the phone, lock the door and prepare to read in a sitting' Guardian 'Another intelligent and absorbing offering from one of crime fiction's most consistent performers' The Times 'McDermid is at the peak of her murderous craft! on the page, McDermid makes criminal profiler Hill every bit as engaging as [Robson Green]' Daily Mirror 'McDermid's capacity for invention has not failed her' Times Literary Supplement 'Peerless!one of the world's finest crime writers, McDermid is currently at the top of her game' Glasgow Herald 'McDermid's usual ingredients of fear, revulsion, ingenuity and heroism! this book is all the more gripping because some holds are barred' Literary Review Praise for the Tony Hill thrillers: 'No one compares to McDermid' Guardian 'One of McDermid's finest, which is saying a lot' The Times 'This is McDermid on top form -- pass the Valium' Daily Mail 'Gripping, intelligent stuff' Mail on Sunday 'Val McDermid is an intelligent, supremely talented novelist and with this latest tale, she is writing at the height of her power. Utterly compelling' Glasgow Herald 'Serial killers, though meat and drink to crime writers, are thankfully rare. It is a tribute to the power of Val McDermid's imagination that she made this one seem so believable' Daily Telegraph 'Complex, combative and nuanced' Express 'Val McDermid, as ever, is adept at engendering irresistible suspense, as the fearsome attractiveness of the ever more benighted and bloody predicament works its effect on readers' Times Literary Supplement 'Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good' Ruth Rendell 'Compelling and shocking' Minette Walters

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Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.

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