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⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats! @davidbishop A Divine Fury Pan Macmillan Chris Brookmyre The Cracked Mirror (Sphere) Val McDermid Past Lying (Sphere) Abir Mukherjee Hunted (Vintage) Kim Sherwood A Spy Like Me HarperCollins Creative Scotland

Bloody delighted to be on this bloody terrific shortlist ! 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thank you so much, I really enjoyed stretching myself to write something so different!

We were lucky to have McIlvanney Prize finalist Val McDermid help us launch our 2024 programme back in June. Her latest, Past Lying, is "A welcome return for the much-loved Karen Pirie in this satisfying novel which contains a few in-jokes for lovers of Scottish crime writing".

Death of a Court Lady. From a series of eighteenth-century Japanese watercolours depicting the nine stages of a decaying corpse or 'kusōzu'. Found in Val McDermid's brilliant book, Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime.

Looking forward to hanging with Māori writer Michael Bennett in UK next week. I first met Michael when he was part of a team helping fight against wrongful conviction of a young Maori man who spent 21yrs in prison. Remarkable man, and author #yeahnoir Bloody Scotland ngatiranana

You wrote it, I just read it!

‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

🎙️📚 The latest podcast, in collaboration with Bloody Scotland, is with the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize, who include @davidbishop Chris Brookmyre Val McDermid Abir Mukherjee & Kim Sherwood.🗡️ Full details, & all the ways to listen, are here 👉 bit.ly/4d5T5hj

Particularly sadistic murders take place in Germany and the Netherlands, but nobody makes the connection apart from two female police officers chatting online in The Last Temptation by Val McDermid #bookreview buff.ly/47nYor9

I'm so excited at the prospect of a new book from the insightful and compassionate Gwen Adshead! bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-s…

What Can ‘Slow Horses’ Tell Us About Modern Britain? rusi.org/explore-our-re…

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Brilliant news for book lovers and authors alike! Topping & Company to open ‘largest independent bookshop in the country’ in York thebookseller.com/news/topping--…

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Iranian rapper and human rights activist Toomaj Salehi was arrested two years ago today in #Iran. He remains unjustly imprisoned and is denied access to health care. Join us in calling for his release. Change your X banner today and #FreeToomaj. توماج صالحی🌋 Human Rights Foundation (HRF)

Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event list.co.uk/news/45944/val…

WRONG DATE!!! The event is 15th December!!! Sorry…

this will be great fun! as the main website is... not entirely helpful, here's a direct ticket link: edwinterfest.com/whats-on/val-m…

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