Best-selling crime author Val McDermid, whose novels have had fans gripped for decades, is now judging our short story competition. So whether you’re looking to be inspired or just entertained, this exclusive, gripping tale by Val is just what you need. It started in the bar.
Well, of course it did, it was a crime-writing festival and the bar was inevitably its beating telltale heart. We’d been on a panel together that afternoon, improbably titled Provincial Noir: Because It’s Not Just London That Has Mean Streets.
But the bar is where it started, not the stage. We write very different kinds of book, Daniel and me. I write dark suspense thrillers where my characters spend most of their four-hundred page existence in a state of visceral
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