name: Val McDermid
birth_date: 1955-06-04 00:00:00
genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
influences: R, Ernest Tidyman, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, P.D.James, Norman Mailer, James Lee Burke, Harold Evans, Penelope Fitzgerald, John le Carré, Ian Rankin, Reginald Hill, William McIlvanney, Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, Colin Dexter
avg_rating: 3.96
ratings_count: 370439
about: Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven 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 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.