Hostage to Murder
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 371
- ISBN-13
- 9780007173495
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Hostage to Murder
Hostage to Murder is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2003. It runs to 371 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Hostage to Murder. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007173495 to find the main one.
Hostage to Murder is book 6 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
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007173495
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007301683
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753118016