Lindsay Gordon · Book 6

Hostage to Murder

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
371
ISBN-13
9780007173495
Type
novel

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About this book

Hostage to Murder didn't appear until 2003 — seven years after Booked for Murder — and at 371 pages is the longest book in the series, its sixth and most recent installment.

Its place in Lindsay Gordon

Hostage to Murder is book 6 in the Lindsay Gordon series. It follows Booked for 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…

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