Lindsay Gordon · Book 2
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.
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