About this book
Trick of the Dark (2010) is a tense, character-driven psychological thriller outside any of Val McDermid's series casts, following The Grave Tattoo in her bibliography. It runs 451 pages, one of her standalone crime novels.
Key facts about Trick of the Dark
Trick of the Dark is a book by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2010. It runs to 451 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Trick of the Dark. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780748117017 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, Fever of the Bone came out in 2009. After it came The Retribution in 2011. Since then, our list has added 17 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 9780748117017
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751543223
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751545982