tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post6577452481035117263..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Profiling Val McDermidMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-42132404180799959332009-10-18T17:16:01.124+01:002009-10-18T17:16:01.124+01:00Hello, Anonymous. First things first, I hope your ...Hello, Anonymous. First things first, I hope your fall wasn't too serious! Yes, Val's books are dark, and they aren't everybody's cup of tea. But it is true that she is very knowledgable about the genre, and I've always appreciated her admiration of Christie - whom not all modern crime authors revere, though I do.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-69936864501062994972009-10-18T15:07:20.405+01:002009-10-18T15:07:20.405+01:00Val chaired an excellent Radio 4 archive hour on A...Val chaired an excellent Radio 4 archive hour on Agatha Christie a few weekends ago. Unfortunately I only caught part of it before falling downstairs, but I was surprised by her perceptive comments and her obvious knowledge of the Christie stories. 'Surprised' because I've always associated her with the sort of depressingly explicit 'serial-killer-disembowels-prostitutes' books that I really don't need in my life. Obviously I'm missing something and will give her another go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-79968361510549954742009-10-14T22:23:09.980+01:002009-10-14T22:23:09.980+01:00I've not read that one yet, Sunnie, but I'...I've not read that one yet, Sunnie, but I've heard good things about it.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-638927284527571602009-10-14T08:25:41.014+01:002009-10-14T08:25:41.014+01:00Hear, hear to everything you said about this fine ...Hear, hear to everything you said about this fine writer. I'm currently reading Fever to the Bone and loving every word of it.<br /><br />I'm not sure if it's a plus or a minus in Val's view, but I now visualise Tony Hill as Robson Green, walking briskly along the street, blue plastic supermarket bag in hand.Sunnie Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602526545956274958noreply@blogger.com