Val McDermid (20:00)

Val McDermid has sold over 17 million books. 1989, the latest Allie Burns thriller is set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series in which Val McDermid mines her past with Allie Burns as a young reporter desperate to prove herself - a character inspired by her own time as a tabloid journalist in Glasgow before becoming queen of Scottish crime fiction.

Allie is determined to give a voice to those who have been silenced, after discovering a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, but as she edges closer to exposing the truth, she must travel behind the Iron Curtain, to East Berlin on the brink of revolution…

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear the reigning queen of UK crime talking about her life and work and her new killer story.

In conversation with Sheena MacDonald

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