EXCLUSIVE: ITV is adapting Val McDermid’s series of cold case investigations Karen Pirie from Harlots writer Emer Kenny and Bodyguard producer World Productions. The British commercial broadcaster has ...

Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1 Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs ...

Winter officially ends next month, but in Louisiana, we assume the gig is already up. Though it’s only February, the days grow longer, brighter, bluer, greener and more glorious, like a canvas filling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Val McDermid divides her time between Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife near St Andrews, and enjoys wintry walks in snowy ...

Forget flashy TV shows like “CSI.” Well, maybe don’t forget them. But take them with a grain of salt. That’s one theme of “Forensics,” an energetic, eye-opening work of reporting by the distinguished ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Maureen Corrigan, Special to The Washington Post There are few other crime writers in the same league as Val McDermid. Her stories are ingeniously plotted ...

Hell, as bestselling crime novelist Val McDermid recently learned, hath no fury like a pensioner scorned some thirty years ago. This Tuesday, a Sunderland courtroom convicted 64-year-old Sandra Botham ...

The year 1979 marked, of course, the end of the 1970s and the beginnings of the 1980s, but decades tend to bleed into each other; definite ends are only a calendar device. And each decade is rife with ...

Plus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital. By Elisabeth Vincentelli She read 171 books for the prestigious ...