Val McDermid
Publications
Play Short Story Novel/Non-fiction Award

Like A Happy Ending , stage play, produced by Plymouth Theatre Company
November/December 1980
Battle Beyond The Black Hole , sci-fi play for children, commissioned and produced by Great Eastern Stage, touring company in Lincoln and Humberside.
May 1981
Like A Happy Ending adapted for radio, broadcast by BBC, producer Stewart Conn.
September 1987
Report For Murder , novel, introducing journalist sleuth Lindsay Gordon, published by The Women's Press. Subsequently published in the USA by St Martin's Press and in Germany by Argument Verlag, to be published in Sweden by Anamma Forlag.
April 1989
A Wife In A Million , short story, included in Reader, I Murdered Him, a women's crime writing anthology published by the Women's Press and in the USA by St Martin's Press. Subsequently re-published in Crime Stories for GCSE Students by Oxford University Press. Also published in Holland, Czech Republic and USA.
September 1989
Common Murder , novel, published by The Women's Press. Published in Germany by Argument Verlag. Published in library edition by Severn House, January 1995. Published in the USA October 1995 by Spinsters Ink.
April 1991
Final Edition , novel, published by The Women's Press and simultaneously in the USA as Open And Shut by St Martin's Press. Published in Germany by Argument Verlag.
May 1992
Dead Beat , novel, introducing private eye Kate Brannigan, published by Gollancz. Subsequently published in the USA by St Martin's Press, in Germany by Fischer, in Holland by Luiting Sijthoff, in Sweden by Anamma Forlag, in France by Librairie des Champs Elyses, to be published in Bulgaria by Orfea, in Denmark and in Japan. Published in paperback by Gollancz in April 1993
June 1992
Breathtaking Ignorance , short story, included in The Crazy Jig, an anthology of gay and lesbian writing in Scotland, published by Polygon.
April 1993
Kick Back , novel, published by Gollancz. Published in the USA by St Martin's Press and by Thorndike (large print), in Holland by Luiting Sijthoff, in Germany by Fischer, in Sweden by Anamma Forlag; to be published in France, Bulgaria and Japan. Published in paperback by Gollancz in April 1994. Published as talking book by Soundings.
September 1993
Union Jack published by The Women's Press, and in Germany by Argument Vorlag. Report For Murder, Common Murder and Final Edition re-published in a uniform edition with Union Jack.
May 1994
Crack Down published in the UK by HarperCollins. Published in the USA by Scribner (hb) and Harper (pb), Germany, Sweden, Holland, France, Denmark and Japan. Published as talking book by Soundings. Paperback publication: February 1995, HarperCollins.
Shortlisted for the 1994 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year.
Shortlisted for the 1995 Anthony Award for best crime novel of the year.
May 1994
The Writing On The Wall , short story included in Third Culprit, a Crime Writers' Association anthology.
Shortlisted for the 1994 Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger.
March 1995
A Traditional Christmas , short story, included in The Women's Press anthology Reader, I Murdered Him Too.
May 1995
Clean Break , the fourth Kate Brannigan novel published by HarperCollins. Published in the USA by Scribner(hb) and Harper(pb). To be published in Germany, Sweden, France and Denmark. Serialised by Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, December 1995.
September 1995
Heartburn , short story, included in Northern Blood II, a Crime Writers' Association anthology published by Flambard Press.
September 1995
A Suitable Job For A Woman , a non-fiction book about real-life women private eyes, published by HarperCollins.
September 1995
Guilt Trip , short story in No Alibi, an anthology published by Ringpull Press in association with the world mystery convention and in limited edition by Scorpion Press.
November 1995
The Mermaids Singing , a psychological thriller, published by HarperCollins.
Winner of the 1995 Crime Writers' Association Macallan Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year
May 1996
Blue Genes , the fifth Kate Brannigan novel, published by HarperCollins.
September 1996 Driving a Hard Bargain, short story published in Perfectly Criminal (ed Martin Edwards) - a collection of Short Stories by members of the CWA.
November 1996
Booked For Murder , the fifth Lindsay Gordon novel, published by The Women's Press.

Festival appearances:
Doncaster Libraries Festival 1995
Swedish Book Fair, Gothenburg 1995
Amsterdam Book Fair 1995
Manchester Fiction Festival 1995
Leicestershire Literature Festival 1995
Bouchercon -- The World Mystery Convention, Nottingham 1995
Edinburgh International Book Festival, 1995
St.Hilda's College Mystery Conference, Oxford 1995
Swansea City of Literature Year, 1995
Bouchercon -- The World Mystery Convention, Seattle 1994
Semana Negra, Gijon, Spain 1994
Cheltenham Literary Festival, 1994
Tameside Festival of Leisure, 1994
Pride 94 -- A celebration of Stonewall, London 1994
Shots On The Page, Nottingham 1994
Arts Council International Crime Writers' Tour 1994
Ilkley Literature Festival, 1994
Writers On Tour, Merseyside, 1993
Manchester Fiction Festival, 1993
Edinburgh International Book Festival, 1993
Birmingham City Literature Festival, 1992
Shots On The Page, Nottingham 1991
Sheffield Writing Festival 1990.

Val McDermid has also taken part in numerous events in libraries, bookshops and with writers' groups throughout the UK. Her work has been extensively reviewed in the national and regional press, and she has made frequent appearances on national and local radio, including Woman's Hour, The World Tonight, Crime Desk and Kaleidoscope. She is an occasional contributor to the BBC Radio Five magazine programme After Midnight. She has tutored for the Arvon Foundation and is a regular after-dinner speaker. She was selected as a participant on a screenwriting course sponsored by Carlton Television.