Podcast Episodes featuring Val McDermid

Kendall & Cooper Talk Mysteries with Val McDermid

Kendall & Cooper Talk Mysteries - November 22, 2017 02:43 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The Podners are roaming in the Scottish gloaming with the Queen of Tartan Noir. She's won almost every award for mystery and suspense fiction. We're talking about her characters behind their backs including detectives and psychological profiler. We discuss a little forensics, the surprising inspi...

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Private Passions - September 06, 2015 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing. Her novels - 30 so far - have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages. But in Private Passions she reveals that what she really wanted to be early on was a singer. As a teenager she played the gui...

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Desert Island Discs - July 14, 2013 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
The writer, Val McDermid, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Crime fiction is Val's chosen genre and the millions of novels she sells examine and dissect the darkest recesses of human behaviour. Domestic violence, murder, abduction - it's difficult to imagine a subject she'd...

1252: A 2012 Interview with Val McDermid and Laurie R. King

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - March 09, 2012 03:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"I grew up thinking that all adult books had to have dead bodies in them."-Val McDermid

Val McDermid - A Place of Execution

World Book Club - June 04, 2011 10:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Acclaimed British writer Val McDermid discusses her page-turning crime novel A Place of Execution. A taut psychological suspense thriller told through two overlapping and interlocking narratives, A Place of Execution takes place both in the present day as well as 1963 rural England with two di...

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Bookclub - February 04, 2007 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
Val McDermid joins readers to discuss The Mermaids Singing, the story of a serial killer who stalks the gay subculture of a northern town. James Naughtie presents.