Union Jack
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN-13
- 9780007191772
- Type
- novel
About this book
Union Jack arrived in 1993 as the fourth entry, 307 pages, with Lindsay's circumstances -- and the settings that move with her, from Glasgow and Fleet Street toward the wider world -- continuing to evolve as the series tracks her life close to real time.
Key facts about Union Jack
Val McDermid wrote Union Jack, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 307 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007191772 to find the main one.
Union Jack is book 4 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
Union Jack is book 4 in the Lindsay Gordon series. It follows Final Edition. It is followed by 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 9780007191772
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007301812
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007755066