Neatly constructed and splendidly sarcastic about the circus of union politics.' Daily Telegraph 'Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable.' The Times Full of bitchery and backbiting, excellently done. Literary Review
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and 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 is now a full-time writer and divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.