10/10/2013 Meet the Author


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just a reminder that The Booker Prize winner will be announced on

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just a reminder that The Booker Val McDermid has written almost

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just a reminder that The Booker books but she did not start until

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many years a report on tabloid books but she did not start until

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many years a report on tabloid newspapers. Her latest book is the

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eighth to feature two of her regular characters. Psychological profiler

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Tony Hill and his friend Detective Carol Jordan. Familiar to viewers of

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This is the eighth book featuring Carol Jordan and Tony Hill and

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without giving too much away, they both find themselves in a different

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place at the start of the book to where they have conventionally been.

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How far with a long—running series like this do you feel you can push

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things and change to relationships. expectations, I think about my

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expectations. This was never meant Singing, the first book, was planned

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as a stand—alone book, but as they went forward, I saw the potential in

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the characters. Also in the kind of things they could investigate and

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the cases and the things they could tell us about society. I do not

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the cases and the things they could finished the retribution, which

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the cases and the things they could them in a difficult place, I had to

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to say, I will stop writing this regroup and to figure out what would

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to say, I will stop writing this series. Because you could end up

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effectively rewriting the same book. Yes, and we all know that writers

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you do not want to churn out books Yes, and we all know that writers

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you do not want to churn out books that have nothing to stay —— nothing

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series, so when I come back to Tony to say. I try to keep fresh and

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series, so when I come back to Tony and Carol, I have been away from

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them for a year, but they have not been in the front of my head and it

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is almost like meeting of friends. This is where you were last time,

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where are you now wish to mark how did you deal with the burden of

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where are you now wish to mark how happened to you before? —— where you

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now? The story of how things are for Tony and Carol is very important.

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And there is a serial killer in Tony and Carol is very important.

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book and a number of women are something you get asked from time to

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time. The justification for some pretty graphic descriptions in your

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novels, this one in particular, pretty graphic descriptions in your

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violence against women. You are justification for that. —— for that?

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The word entertainment is difficult But I would say that what I am

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writing novels that have a lot of social commentary about the way

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writing novels that have a lot of live now. It would be incredibly

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naive to say that these crimes of violence do not exist against women,

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big do, domestic violence, date rape, stranger violence —— they

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big do, domestic violence, date Women overwhelmingly are victims of

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extreme sexual violence and to not write about it seems perverse. But

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when you write about it, dealing very directly with what violence is

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the line that you can cross past two very directly with what violence is

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technology to help police solve to cross. I often think, have I

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technology to help police solve crimes, so you have DNA, CCTV, it is

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the first novel in which I have crimes, so you have DNA, CCTV, it is

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boss cameras or an oughtn't plot device. And from the point of view

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of police and a crime writer, that is a gift. As a citizen, are you

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alarmed by the intrusiveness of is a gift. As a citizen, are you

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Yes, I am very alarmed. I find the survey was state very disturbing. It

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is all right if you are on the right side of it and you have a benevolent

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government, but we have set in place the tools that a non—benevolent

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government could use to clamp down One of the accusations tabled by

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journalists is that they pay for information and sometimes corrupt

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elite —— corruptly, they pay police officers, and that is criminal.

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elite —— corruptly, they pay police you recognise that from your days as

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We would pay for a tip and sometimes you knew it was coming indirectly

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from a police officer, you would be paying their wife, but 50 quid,

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from a police officer, you would be not thousands. You took a police

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officer for a drink and you built up a contact and they helped you if

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they could. But the level and scale of corruption seemed shocking, the

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idea these officers at Scotland of corruption seemed shocking, the

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of newspapers. I found it quite could be bent and were in the pocket

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of newspapers. I found it quite be a tabloid journalist and I did

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which has been coming out recently. be a tabloid journalist and I did

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which has been coming out recently. Maybe we should have held the line

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more and said to the editors, we are not doing this. It is hard to do,

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Do you think the newspapers will and It is hard to see how when we see

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what the Daily Mail has been up It is hard to see how when we see

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Miliband. It seems impossible the the blackening of the name of Ross

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Miliband. It seems impossible the tabloid press will put themselves in

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order —— Ralph Miliband. But I resist state control over newspapers

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because that is what fascist regimes do not democratic socialist regimes.

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It is a thorny problem and I do

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