Series: Lindsay Gordon
by Author Val McDermid
Conferences Are Murder (2005)
I love Lindsay's character like whoa, but she's even better when she has a partner in inquiry. Beyond being just a sounding board, though, Sophie really grew on me in this book. Much more than Cordelia did in the previous books. Cordelia played more of the dense follower (with rather a tone of re...
Report For Murder (1998)
I think I've read ONE (or maybe two) or Val McDermid's early mysteries featuring Lindsey Gordon, a Brit lefty lesbian journalist in the 1980s (I could almost use the 'historical mysteries' tag now). Not this one, though, and not the next one I am about to review. It's interesting to me how this...
Common Murder (2004)
I enjoyed this just as much as the first of the series, Report for Murder. It's a fun, easy read, again featuring Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist. It has the same sharp wit and sarcasm as previously, and despite its Cold War era datedness, the plot is...
Hostage To Murder (2003)
This is the first of the Lindsay Gordon series that I've read, and I found it very different to the Tony Hill series, which I've really enjoyed. The central character is a journalist who has moved back to Glasgow from the USA because of her girlfriends career. At a loose end for work, she meets a...