![]() She knows what she’s up against: ‘I’m a woman in a Neanderthal’s world. ![]() ![]() She has a degree from Cambridge, a clear moral compass and a boundless determination to succeed in a man’s world where none of those qualities is particularly welcome. It’s the story of Allie Burns, a young woman from a working-class Fife family who has a job as a reporter on a Glasgow tabloid. Over the past 34 years, she’s published four very different crime series, a clutch of standalones, two books for children, a modern reworking of Northanger Abbey, and several non-fiction titles.Īnd now comes 1979, the first in a planned five-book series set at ten-year intervals up to the present. Advanced: eBay Deals Find a Store Help Sell Watch List Expand Watch. Author 1, Val Mcdermid Editorial Review, Praise for Northanger Abbey: Val McDermids brilliant re-working of Jane Austens original shows that innocent. 9781444823875 at the best online prices at eBay Skip to main content. McDermid herself, however, has a refreshing habit of rarely treading water for long. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Northanger Abbey By Val McDermid. ![]() ![]() The same could be said of crime writers themselves, who work in a genre that has an inbuilt tendency to encourage repetition, often with dreary results in the long term. Like a basking shark, Val McDermid once remarked, a crime series needs to keep moving or die. ![]()
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