Curve features an article with Val McDermid, who describes her childhood growing up in a mining community. The interview coincides with publication of A Darker Domain featuring a new character, DI Karen Pirie “as fascinating and nuanced as any McDermid character yet”.
Both my grandfathers were miners. The one who only had daughters rejoiced that no child of his was going to have to spend a working life underground. Deep underground in the heat and the stink and the filth and the danger, they knew what hard work was, my grandfathers.via Behind “A Darker Domain” – Curve Magazine – Web Articles 2009.
Crime fiction has become a talking point recently. In our Novembernewsletter, we linked you to an article in The New Yorker. This time round,Val also features in a discussion about The State of the Crime Novel in the Huffington Post.
Val McDermid, again, is a model of superior consistency, combining excellent page-turning abilities with characters the reader cares about.
