Val McDermid

Val McDermid, the Scottish crime writer of more than 30 novels, has written a nonfiction book on the history of forensic science, Forensics: The Anatomy of a Crime. From her Q & A about the book with Linda Geddes for NewScientist, republished in Slate: How has forensic science influenced your writing up until now? It helps me to anchor my books in the real world. Everybody knows crimes don't