SCOTTISH BOOKS FOR A RAINY DAY
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Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining town. She left to read English at Oxford and worked as a journalist until becoming a full time writer. Among her credits is the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing. All of her books are psychological thrillers whether they involve criminal profiler Tony Hill or Manchester Private Investigator Kate Brannigan. One of her Kate Brannigan books, Star Struck, won the Grand Prix de Romans d'Aventure in France. Her latest book, Killing the Shadows, is a great read, which begins with the killing of a Scottish crime writer in Edinburgh. After a couple of more murders it becomes obvious that someone is killing crime writers who had mad heroes out of psychological profilers. Professor Fiona Cameron, an academic psychologist, who uses computers to help catch serial killers becomes involved because Kit Martin's friends are the one's being murdered. Kit is Fiona's lover and also a crime thriller writer. Fiona finds herself draw more and more into the killings as her concern for the safety of Kit grows. Will he be the next victim of these horrible crimes which are staged to look just like a page out of the victim's book? I could say many positive things about this book from great characterization to a soundly constructed plot but for me the dramatic and suspenseful ending makes this books worth reading. Only a great writer can create a surprising ending so in grouping and believable. This is a well-crafted book and for that I have given it four thistles.
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