About this book
Killing the Shadows (2000) followed A Place of Execution as another of Val McDermid's acclaimed standalone crime novels, published outside any of her five ongoing series. It runs 540 pages.
Key facts about Killing the Shadows
Killing the Shadows is a book by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2000. It runs to 540 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Killing the Shadows. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002261081 to find the main one.
Val McDermid has 42 books in our catalogue. 33 of them belong to a series, while 9 stand alone. All 42 are out now. Other books by Val McDermid on file include Silent Bones (2025), Queen Macbeth (2024), Past Lying (2023) and 1989 (2022).
Before this one, A Place of Execution came out in 1999. After it came The Last Temptation in 2002. Since then, our list has added 27 more books by Val McDermid.
Val McDermid has 5 series on file, such as Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. 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.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002261081
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002261104
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006392965