By now, I should be an old hand at this book writing carry-on. After all, as I sat down to write Apple of My Eye, I was penning what would...

What a buzz! There I am, in the Bestsellers list in Ireland: The Manhattan Project. This crazy dream, to see my novel published, a dream which sometimes felt like an...

Val McDermid, who headlined the inaugural Murder One festival in Dublin last year, believes that crime writers should not have to defend what they do. The author of more than 40...

It’s the 13th of June 2016. Monday evening. I’m on the sofa watching Ireland play Sweden in the Euros. Wes Hoolahan is in the starting line-up and Eamon Dunphy is...

Red Snow is the second Tuva Moodyson thriller. In the first book, Dark Pines, the elk hunt was the constant threat in the background. The sheer number of rifles, hunters,...

I think that the old adage “never judge a book by its cover” is a terrible piece of advice. How can you do anything else when you first encounter a...

I write about fictional detectives and spies, but my true hero is the Irish Border between Tyrone and Monaghan, and its soft, mazy landscape of bogland and forest. I grew...

Inspiration is a tricky thing to pin down, I think, but it’s the commonest question you find yourself asked as an author – ‘What’s the inspiration behind your story?’ So...

Writers are often asked where they get the inspiration for their work. When did they begin to write the story? How did they develop it until it became a publishable...

It might come as a shock to some people when they read my gritty books that I actually started out writing women’s fiction. Back then, my inspiration came from authors...