Lindsay Gordon · Book 1
Report for Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN-13
- 9780007191741
- Type
- novel
About this book
Report for Murder (1987) is Val McDermid's series debut, introducing freelance Scottish journalist Lindsay Gordon -- one of the earliest British crime novels to put a lesbian protagonist at its center rather than its margins. At 216 pages, it launches a series McDermid would track in something close to real time across the following sixteen years.
Its place in Lindsay Gordon
Report for Murder is book 1 in the Lindsay Gordon series. It is followed by Common 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
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007301775
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007385089