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Val McDermid

New Val McDermid Book Releases Schedule

Val McDermid has new books coming out. Are they on your reading list?

Val McDermid is a #1 international bestselling Scottish crime writer whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages and sold over eighteen million copies. She has earned globally prestigious awards – such as the CWA Gold Dagger, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, LA Times Book of the Year, and the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award – and was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009. A Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, she divides her time between Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.

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Genre: Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Thriller 

Publication Schedule

New Val McDermid Book Release

The latest Val McDermid book is CrimeBits 2 (Black Spring Crime). It released on December 16, 2025.

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Upcoming Val McDermid 2026 Book Release

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The next Val McDermid book is This Door of the Seas. It is scheduled to release on August 6, 2026.

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New and upcoming Val McDermid 2026 & 2027 releases

Val McDermid has 5 new and upcoming books scheduled to be released.

October, 2025

Silent Bones (Karen Pirie #8)

November, 2025

Winter (Seasons #1)

December, 2025

CrimeBits 2 (Black Spring Crime)

August, 2026

This Door of the Seas

October, 2026

1999 (Allie Burns #3)

Val McDermid’s Writing Style

McDermid combines forensic precision with psychological and social depth. Her writing is sharp, atmospheric, and emotionally intelligent, uniting procedural detail with human vulnerability and moral complexity.

Interesting Facts

  • Studied English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, becoming the first student from a Scottish state school to attend the college.
  • Worked sixteen years as a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist, eventually serving as Northern Bureau Chief of a national newspaper.
  • Co-founded the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, now Europe’s leading crime-fiction event.
  • Her Tony Hill & Carol Jordan novels inspired the acclaimed television series Wire in the Blood (2002–2008).
  • Her Karen Pirie series was adapted by ITV in 2022, bringing her cold-case heroine to screen audiences.
  • Holds multiple honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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2 Comments

  1. I love Val McDermid books! I’ve read all of her books but can’t find when her next one is out? Does she have any more coming out this year (2025), or are there any books of hers to come out next year that are already a nnounced? Thanks and keep up the great work

    • Hi Joan, happy to help. Val McDermid’s next book is “Winter”, which drops November 20, 2025. After that, she already has a thriller scheduled for next fall in “1999”, the third book in the Allie Burns series, which will release in October 2026.

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