Collectively, they are the best Scottish crime writers you may not have read, but will definitely love. ... What She Did, her latest, sees three women united by one devastating secret.

Fellow north-east writers Nan Shepherd and Neil M Gunn encouraged and helped her and she later found work with the BBC, writing and producing radio plays and working on Women’s Hour.

Scottish author and broadcaster Val McDermid will be awarded an honorary degree from University of Edinburgh as part of its ...

Some have estimated that the audience for true crime shows is 80 percent female. In fact, women loving true crime is such a cliché that “Saturday Night Live” made a song about it in 2021 .