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'I start my day in a condition of rage' {Interview w/ Val McDermid}

Started by LostInTime, August 17, 2007, 08:13:21 AM

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August 17, 2007, 08:13:21 AM
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The feminist writer Joan Smith once claimed that McDermid's books were full of dead bodies and gratuitous violence towards women. After reading that, McDermid ploughed through her back catalogue, counting up the corpses. "At that point I had killed 12 men, 12 women and one transsexual," she notes. "You can't get more equal opportunities than that.
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