Val McDermid

Novelist

Val McDermid was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom on June 4th, 1955 and is the Novelist. At the age of 69, Val McDermid biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 4, 1955
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
Age
69 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Journalist, Novelist, Writer
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Education
St Hilda's College, Oxford
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Jo Sharp (m. 2016)
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Val McDermid Life

Val McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr.

Tony Hill.

Personal life

McDermid formerly lived in both Stockport and near Alnmouth in Northumberland with three cats and a border terrier dog. Since early 2014 she has lived in Stockport and Edinburgh.

In 2016, McDermid captained a team of crime writer challengers on the TV quiz Eggheads, beating the Eggheads and winning £14,000.

In 2010, she was still living between Northumberland and Manchester with publisher Kelly Smith, with whom she had entered into a civil partnership in 2006.

On 23 October 2016 McDermid married her partner of two years, Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow.

McDermid is a radical feminist and socialist. She has incorporated feminism into some of her novels.

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Scotland's secret king of crime

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 28, 2024
He was the avuncular man in sensible specs who, at his peak, was a Scottish household name - and the true pioneer of the gritty, murderous genre that is 'tartan noir'. Bill Knox, a journalist from the south side of Glasgow, covered untold crimes, fronted for almost a decade STV's Crime Desk slot appealing for help from the public - always signing off the programme with the promise that any calls to the police 'can be in confidence' - and had abundant contacts in the constabulary. But he was also, for decades, the author of many police procedurals and thrillers, of which the best remembered series follows the Glasgow homicides that entangled the excitable Chief Inspector Thane and his calmer deputy, Moss. Knox used so many pseudonyms for other adventures it is hard to tally them all - Michael Kirk, Noel Webster, Robert MacLeod - but he is now thought to have written 65 books between 1957 and his death, a quarter-century ago, on March 24, 1999.

ANDREW NEIL: They've demolished the schools, the health service, and the economy. Now the SNP are set to destroy free speech with 'hate crime' law that's an ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 30, 2024
If you live in scotland, you could face a 'hate crime' if you say somewhere, even in your own home. Even your children will be able to notify Police Scotland, which will bring the 'haters' to justice from among its already overburdened, lowlustre ranks.

This legislation isn't an assault on hate; it's an attack on our very liberty

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 29, 2024
A group of artists, writers, and lobbyists sent an open letter to the Scottish Government in the summer of 2020, when the world seemed febrile and unsteady, and the prospect of any new laws pertaining to Covid seemed unthinkable. Although the majority of us were focusing on when we could eat in a restaurant with more than three others or set foot in an office once more, Val McDermid, Rowan Atkinson, and Elaine C Smith had one eye on the future. The hate crime legislation, in particular, is expected to go into place this year. They were not worried that the laws would impinge on free expression and artistic achievement, but they did not mince their words.