Booked for Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 273
- ISBN-13
- 9780007858064
- Type
- novel
About this book
Booked for Murder, published in 1996 at 273 pages, is the fifth Lindsay Gordon novel, arriving as McDermid's freelance-journalist detective series moves toward its final entry, Hostage to Murder, seven years later.
Key facts about Booked for Murder
Val McDermid wrote Booked for Murder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 273 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007858064 to find the main one.
Booked for Murder is book 5 of 6 in the Lindsay Gordon series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Report for Murder (1987).
Additionally, Val McDermid writes Kate Brannigan, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan and Karen Pirie, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, This Door of the Seas is the latest published Val McDermid book on file, from 6 August 2026.
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer whose career spans nearly four decades and five distinct series, making her one of the most prolific and structurally ambitious authors working in British crime fiction. See every Val McDermid book in order.
Its place in Lindsay Gordon
Booked for Murder is book 5 in the Lindsay Gordon series. It follows Union Jack. It is followed by Hostage to Murder. See the full Lindsay Gordon reading order.
Lindsay Gordon is Val McDermid's debut series and one of the earliest British crime series to put a lesbian protagonist at its center rather than at its margins. Lindsay is a freelance Scottish journalist -- broke, sharp-tongued, and instinctively unable to leave a story alone -- who keeps stumbling into murder investigations that intersect with her professional beat: student politics, trade union conferences, the world of women's football, publishing, and eventually the war-reporting circuit. McDermid started…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007858064
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780704345010