Authors: Val McDermid
Cleanskin (8 page)
Cleanskin
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.
Her novels have won international acclaim and a number of awards.
A Place of Execution
won both the Anthony Award for best novel and the
Los Angeles Times
2001 Book of the Year Award Mystery/Thriller, while
The Mermaids
Singing
took the 1995 Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year.
The Grave Tattoo
The Distant Echo
Killing the Shadows
A Place of Execution
Tony Hill novels
Beneath the Bleeding
The Torment of Others
The Last Temptation
The Wire in the Blood
The Mermaids Singing
Kate Brannigan novels
Star Struck
Blue Genes
Clean Break
Crack Down
Kick Back
Dead Beat
Lindsay Gordon novels
Booked for Murder
Union Jack
Final Edition
Common Murder
Report for Murder
Non-fiction
A Suitable Job for a Woman
While some of the characters and incidents portrayed herein
are based on historical events, this novel is entirely the work
of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely
coincidental.
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are
the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is
entirely coincidental.
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