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.
Key facts about Report for Murder
Val McDermid wrote Report for Murder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 216 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007191741 to find the main one.
Report for Murder is book 1 of 6 in the Lindsay Gordon series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007191741
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007301775
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007385089