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Nicola Sturgeon 's close friend the crime writer Val McDermid has launched an astonishing attack on Police Scotland, accusing ...
Spare a thought for Nicola Sturgeon. One minute she was in charge of a small country, trying to make it seem bigger by ...
Des and the teams are at the Edinburgh Festivals to break up the week's big news, including deputy first minister Kate Fobes’s announcement about stepping down at the next election, calls for Scotland ...
When Val McDermid failed to publish a new novel last year, speculation was rife. Had the celebrated author been too busy ...
I’m delighted to be bringing Karen back to your screens, now a detective inspector with more power, more confidence, and some of the same iconic sweater vests,” smiles Kenny. “We have a dazzling cast, ...
In that spirit, original Outlander star Graham McTavish, who played Jamie Fraser's uncle on the Starz series, made a surprise appearance at the Comic-Con panel for prequel series Outlander: Blood of ...
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Is This ITV Detective Drama The New Sherlock?
The first series of Karen Pirie introduced us to the titular detective sergeant, played by Lauren Lyle, who is put in charge of a 25-year-old cold case, now the subject of a popular true crime podcast ...
Crime writer Val McDermid has branded the current political landscape an "absolutely cesspit of misogyny." ...
Val McDermid will be appearing at this summer's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. Picture: Charlotte Graham.
Val McDermid described libraries as ‘windows that let all of us fly’ (Jane Barlow/PA) “But it’s not just writers who have their doors opened to the wider world by libraries.
Put Nicola Sturgeon, former leader of the Scottish National Party, and Val McDermid, Queen of Crime, together and what you get from the firm friends is books, books and more books. Books they’re ...
Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon and crime writer Val McDermid have told how books drew them together and remain the “mainstay” of their friendship, ahead of a December event in ...