Common Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN-13
- 9780007191758
- Type
- novel
About this book
Common Murder followed in 1989, the second Lindsay Gordon novel at 250 pages, continuing to track journalist Lindsay's life and politics as they shift book to book -- part of McDermid's early work toward the amateur-sleuth-with-a-day-job structure she'd refine across her career.
Key facts about Common Murder
Common Murder is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 1989. It runs to 250 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Common Murder. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007191758 to find the main one.
Common Murder is book 2 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
Common Murder is book 2 in the Lindsay Gordon series. It follows Report for Murder. It is followed by Final Edition. 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 9780007191758
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007301805
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007755073