Val McDermid collection.

Field: Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

A selection of Val McDermid dramas 02 – Clean Break 03 – The Right Chemistry 04 – The Distant Echo 05 – Village SOS 06 – Resistance 07 – Resistance 08 – Resistance 09 – I Remember Yesterday 10 – Same Crime, Next Year Clean Break – When a Monet is stolen from a stately home where she’d arranged the security, Manchester-based PI Kate Brannigan sets off on a chase across Europe that brings her face-to-face with organised crime. Starring Charlotte Coleman. The Right Chemistry – Jane Hazelgrove stars in this follow-up to Clean Break, which sees Kate embroiled in a deadly case of industrial sabotage, blackmail, counterfeiting and murder. The Distant Echo – Late one night in the snow, four students stumble upon the body of a dead girl. 25 years later, the police launch a cold-case review of the unsolved murder. but is the killing over? A thrilling dramatisation of the first Karen Pirie novel, starring Jimmy Chisholm, John-Paul Hurley and Claire Knight. Village SOS – Investigating a murder in the sleepy Northumbrian village of Shilwick, DCI Marion Bettany and DS John Hodgson find the residents curiously reluctant to help. Helen Baxendale and David Seddon star as the detective duo. Resistance – Midsummer, and 150,000 revellers are partying at the Solstice music festival. But then people start to get sick with a mystery illness: one that’s highly contagious and seemingly resistant to antibiotics…. Gina McKee stars in this chilling, apocalyptic drama. I Remember Yesterday – A young woman haunts Edinburgh’s alleyways, seeking revenge to the ’70s strains of Donna Summer. Hannah Donaldson reads this spine-chilling ghost story. Same Crime, Next Year – Set in Harrogate, this gripping tale imagines the fallout from the torrid affair of two crime writers. Read by Siobhan Redmond. S01E01 – Deadheading S01E02 – Deadheading S01E03 – Deadheading S01E04 – Deadheading S01E05 – Deadheading S02E01 – Dead Clever S02E02 – Dead Clever S02E03 – Dead Clever S02E04 – Dead Clever S02E05 – Dead Clever S03E01 – Dead Pan S03E02 – Dead Pan S03E03 – Dead Pan S03E04 – Dead Pan S03E05 – Dead Pan S04E01 – Dead Weight S04E02 – Dead Weight S04E03 – Dead Weight S04E04 – Dead Weight S04E05 – Dead Weight S05E01 – Dead Cert S05E02 – Dead Cert S05E03 – Dead Cert S05E04 – Dead Cert S05E05 – Dead Cert Dead Heading – Best selling crime writer Val McDermid turns to comedy capers among the carrots, as we rummage through the undergrowth of a murder on the allotments. Starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Miriam Margolyes. It’s a case for Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, the Alpha Detective, her sergeant Jason Trotter, and Jo Blake the crime scene manager. Watch how the women behave towards each other. Rivals? Not quite. There may even be a barely detectable flirtatiousness between them. Dead Clever – Alma Blair probes who offed the Prof at the university. Comedy crime drama starring Julie Hesmondhalgh. Dead Pan – DCI Alma Blair is enjoying a romantic dinner at a fine dining restaurant, but is murder on the menu? Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh. Dead Weight – DCI Alma Blair is found lurking behind the weighing scales at Fat Busters. Determined to be anonymous, she’s masquerading as a florist, until someone with murder in mind forces Alma into action. DS Jason Trotter is called to the scene and it seems there’s another member of the team about to make a surprise appearance… Val McDermid’s crime series, starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Jane Hazlegrove, returns to Cranby, where it seems losing weight really can be murder! Dead Cert – We race towards the final furlong of Val McDermid’s Dead series. DCI Alma Blair investigates matters of life and death in the closed world of horse racing.