Val McDermid competition – win a copy of Fever of the Bone
The competition has now closed. Our five lucky winners pulled from the amazing number of entries (our most popular competition yet!) are…
- Emma Reardon
- Richard Sutherland
- Jesse Partington
- Rebecca Ruff
- Katie MacKenzie
Congratulations, we will email you all and get your prizes in the post so you can start enjoying Val’s gripping new book asap! Thank you to everyone for entering, and if you haven’t done so already, there’s still time to enter our Ian McEwan competition to win a signed copy of his new book, Solar.
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International best selling crime writer Val McDermid has sold over two million copies in the UK alone and over 10 million copies worldwide. Fever of the Bone is the sixth novel to feature clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective chief inspector Carol Jordan and we have five copies of the newly released paperback to give away thanks to the nice folks at Sphere (Little, Brown) and Colman Getty (thanks Caroline!)
The series has enjoyed huge success, including being adapted for the award-winning ITV drama Wire in the Blood. Here’s the blurb on the latest book… In Fever of the Bone Val introduces Tony Hill’s most twisted adversary to date – a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires.
The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it’s not long before Tony realises it’s just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign that’s targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Struggling with the newly-awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most testing investigation yet.
If that has given you a taster and you think it’s a book you might enjoy, then enter our competition…
For a chance to win one of five copies, simply leave a comment on the blog and keep everything crossed! We’ll pick our five lucky winners on Monday 22 March at noon. UK entries only for this one – apologies. Good luck and thanks for entering!
For more about Val McDermid, visit her official website.







love to win thanx. great comp.
This looks a good read loved Wire in the Blood. x
Looks like such a good book, would love the chance to read it!
Sounds fab! please put my name in the hat
@grannysmither on twitter
Looks great love to win it.
fingers and toes crossed.
Looks like an intense read, would love this. Thanks for the comp.
Love Val McDermid, would be great to win this! Thanks for the opportunity!
Her books are so gripping and well written, thanks for the chance to win this one!
There’s a reason Val McDermid is an international best seller author. For me she can’t write the next one quick enough – I love reading her stuff! Thanks for this opportunity to win a copy of her latest book.
love to win, thanks, sounds (reads)! like a book that i’d be interested in.
Hope she’s back to form. Loved the original Tony Hill books, but haven’t enjoyed her recent work so much.
Sounds fantastic, a book i would love to win xxx
Absolutely love a good crime thriller, good luck to me!
Would love to win this. Really enjoyed Wire in the blood.
This sounds like just my sort of thing
Thanks for the chance to win!
Everything well and truly crossed – love psychological thrillers!
It sounds like a great read! Please put my name in the digital hat
psychological thrillers! they play with your mind – would love to win one of these copies
I’d love to win one of these – it sounds great!
Fingers definately crossed ! would love this xxx
sounds brill! would love to win it – have run out of books to read lol
Ooooh, I’d love to read this……………please!
Looks like a cracker – count me in!
Keep meaning to read a Val McDermid but have not manged it yet but might do very soon if I’m very lucky……
Sounds like a great book! Please enter me in the draw.
would love the chance to read this book
would like to win !
Please enter me, would love to win, thank you.
Ooo looks like a fantastic read – definitely got my fingers crossed.
I love crime thrillers like this.
Looks interesting! I like books which make me shiver and hide under my duvet!
Now this sounds like a good read but all her books are brilliant so wouldn’t expect anything different from this one.
Would go nicely with my other books by Val.
brilliant prize, my type of reading
good luck everyone
My boyfriend loves Val Mcdermid, i hope i win!
I would love this, I am really getting into crime novels at the moment
Read most of her books and this sounds like one of her best yet
I love Val McDermid’s books
Have read and enjoyed most of her books and this sounds one of her best yet
Great prize
would like to enter, thank you.
love reading her books,she’s really good
Would love to win this!
Thanks for the opportunity – I love these books!
Oooh I keep seeing this advertised at London Bridge, would LOVE to win a copy
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Love Val’s books. Please enter me in the competition
Edge of your seat thriller – sounds like a great read.
Good Book – I can feel it in my bones!!
Love crime novels, this one looks like a gripper.
Love Val McDermid – fab books, would really love to win this.
I love Val’s books please put me in the draw
Choose me please.
Now this would be a book my mother in law would love! A birthday present from us for sure! Please!
Just love her books!
My Mum’s called Val, maybe it’s a lucky omen!
Huge McDermid fan!
I’ve read all of Val McDermid’s books except this one, so I’d love to win it!
Read a good review of this book, seems like a good read.
I have read every one of Val’s books and would love to win a copy of his, they are so fantastically written x
looks great!
Please put my name in the Val hat
Another great giveaway! Pls put my name in the hat
Yes please, I’m a huge fan, (not huge as in fat, huge as in enthusiastic)
Everything crossed here! The Tony Hill series is excellent, would love to read this one
Cheers!
I’d love a new book, good luck everyone!
I could do with a chilling read, of its anything like her previous efforts it will do just that
Words are my sanctuary. Mine or someone else’s
I would love to have this book. And I hope I am on the top of the hat. (At least for another few minutes
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I would be thrilled to win this book as she is a fantastic author.
So please enter me xx
Sounds excellent not read books from this author but would love to explore her books
Val McDermid rules!!!
Just love her books!
Sounds like a great read!
I’d like to read this.
looks like a good read
Please enter me and thanks for running this competition.
I’ll make no bones about it – I need to be boned-up on this!
Me, me, me please!
Never read her books – would like to give it a try…
FAB PRIZE
Looks like a good read, a book i would sit up all night and read.
Sounds like a fantastic read, would love to win one.
I’d love to win this thanks.
Looks like a really good book.
I would love to win this.
GREAT Book
Looks a really gripping read
looks great , i would love to win this one x
Love her books always a good read with twists.
Wire in the Blood is MY secret treat that I sit down and watch every week. Please enter me into the draw for this fantastic giveaway !
Count me in please!
would love to win. x
Ooohhh yes please
Love to enter for this please xx
I would love to win… here’s hoping.
Fingers Crossed xxx
A new Val McDermid book is a real treat.
Here’s hoping I’m lucky.
I first read Val many years ago, she came highly recommended by my dad who is no longer with us and so sadly missed. The Wire in the Blood series is brilliant and so was the TV adaptations but you really had to read the books to get the full impact of her writing. This novel looks like its going to be another winner.
Thanks
Great prize would love to read
I’ve read a couple of Val McDermid’s novels before – very good, so I’d love to get a hold of this one without having to pay for a change
Really enjoy crime books anyway & this one has a good storyline by the seems of it.
@eppytaff
Sounds like a brilliant read
Nice competition, I would love to read Val McDermid’s new novel.
Oooo this looks really good. Don’t think I’ve read any Val McDermid so would be a nice introduction.
Have retweeted on twitter @misty
have read all her books and watched the tv series so would love to read her new book
Ian Rankin, Harlan Coben, Jonathan Kellerman… Ive recently discovered Val McDermid and she’s right up there with these great crime writers. Not yet read “Fever of the Bone” so please include my name in the draw.
Sounds like my kind of book!!
Lovely prize I would love to win
Sounds great thanks!
The christian name’s the same and I would love to win.
Wire in the Blood is/was excellent – I’m looking forward to reading this one
Got to be in it to win it!
she is a great author
Oooo this looks like a good read – can’t wait
Chance to get in mum’s good books once again
If only there were more authors like Val. So gripping and find it hard to put the books down! Would love to win this one.
Loved The Grave Tattoo and would love to read this!
This would be great to win!
Sounds just like just my cup of tea! I could have my cup of tea and a great read at the same time! Pick me, pick me, pick me!!
This must be fate, My nickname is Bone, and I’ve got a streaming cold, so I’m living Fever of the Bone right now. It’s not pretty.
Good luck all
Sounds interesting – everything crossed!
This looks a good read – be nice to put my feet up and just read for a while
Looks a really good read!
I would be a first time reader to this author so would love to see how I find the story.
What great prizes. I would love a chance to win, thank you!
Love a good read. Please enter me into the giveaway.
Sounds fab!
Stick me in the draw too please
Looks great love to win it.
A great writer. All her books are first class. Looking forward to reading her latest.
I love this author brilliant reads
i would love to get a chance to read this hopei am qa winner
Ive read one of her books and it was brillo so hopefully this will be the second one that i get to read!
(hint hint!)
Wire in the Blood was fantastic so would love to win this
Would love this as I love the authors books, a great prize
Hope this chiller leaves me with fever–of the bone !!
I have never read a Val McDermid book and have recently started reading crime thrillers and been told that she writes absolutely brilliant books. I would so love to win this!
please enter me. Thank you.
val mc dermid is adept at engendering irresistible suspense’
count me in please
sounds great, would love to win this!
Great
Fever Of The Bone – a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires! Sounds like my kind of scary read. Would love one to frighten myself.
Hot chocolate, open fire, Val McDermid book – perfect relaxation!
I’ve never been disappointed by one of Val McDermid’s books, so this is a prize I would love to win.
I LOVE VAL McDERMID BOOKS SO PLEASE PLEASE LET ME WIN
Wow, didn’t realise Wire in the Blood was based on McDermid’s books. I would love to get a copy of this to get me started with the literary source of such a great show.
Love Val McDermid books. Tony Hill is intriguing but what a dark world he tends to delve into.
I would love to read this…it sounds fab x
looks like a great read, would be ideal for my holidays in 10 weeks.
love these characters, please put my name in the draw!!
thankyou
I love a good crime novel so looking forward to hopefully reading this!
sounds good, win win win
wuld love to win this
I’d love to win this please
Love the authors work for years.
Have just read Wire in the Blood and thought it was fab – I have found myself a new author!
Not very mobile at the moment so this would certainly help while away the hours.
Great books, and I just love the idea of a clinical psychologist as the hero of the piece in a detective novel
Love her books and have crossed my ‘bones’ and I am ‘feverish’ for this chance to win this fantastic prize.
Looks like a “must read!”
Sounds like a great read. Fingers crossed!
This looks like a great book put me in the draw please
Looking forward to reading it!
Love her other books, this looks like a great read too!
I need a good read.This looks perfect
enter me
would love to win please please please
Really enjoy this series. Would love to win it.
love to win this book great writer
looks great
Would love to win this comp
Definatly my sort of book
xxx
oh looks a great read x
looks great – please put my name in hat
Sounds wonderful, would love to win
Sounds good, count me in thanks!
Would love to win this book. It’s the kind of fiction that I love to read!
Maybe it will be meeee?! This would be a nice competition to win.
I would love to win!
sounds like a good read
would love to win this
Perfect for my holiday
Looks great. Good for me and hubby.
Her books are always excellent (bad to the bone!) and I’d love win this one.
great books would love to win xx
Looks like a great read – thanks for the chance to win Xx
So glad i found this competition in time. What an amazing prize i can only dream of winning. Love Val McDermid ……thanks for the chance of owning a copy.
Looks like a great read!
love Val McDermid. Can’t wait to read this one.
The only author to terrify the living daylights out of me. I love Val’s books , please keep on writing them.
good book would love to win please entre me.
thanks
This looks like a fab read, please enter me
I enjoyed Wire in the Blood so this sounds interesting.
lovely prize, thank you
Looks like a good read
please put my name into the draw
Many thanks for running the competition.
Sounds like a great read
Looks like an exciting read.
I’ve just finished ‘A Darker Domain’ and really think McDermid is getting stronger and stronger. I’d love to win a copy of ‘Fever of The Bone’. Touch wood!
I’d love to win this, I’ve never read anything by this author before
Looks like a great book.
Just watched her on BBC with Nicky Campbell, she comes across as very sensible
and just as articulate as her writings.
would like to win this
A great book – would love a signed copy
Would love to win this, fingers crossed xx
Best books I have ever read.
Would love to win this – a great writer and from Manchester too! My home town
would love to read this
A lovely prize, would love to win. Thanks!
Would love to win this ..if its anything as good as wire in the blood it will be wicked !
Yes please. I love a good thriller.
I have read every oneof Val’s books, even this one so it would be a great prize to win. I am a big fan of her work.
Yes please! Book a doddle do.
Val is my favourite author, fingers crossed. What a bonus if it waas signed also. x
New to all this but Great Blog !
looks great,if its as good as wire in the blood it will be a brilliant read
count me in please
Would really love to win this book.
Fab prize. Yes please!
Everything crossed would love to win
Looking forward to hearing her talk at Harrogate Crime Festival this year!
Looking forward to reading this one.
Would love to read the new book, i’ve loved all her books that i’ve read so far
would love to win please x
Thank you
Would love to win a copy!
This looks fab, I need a new book to start
will really enjoy reading this
Loved TV show but since starting on the books, I’ve made my way through each one!
Looks like a good book to curl up with.
Looks like a great book.
I enjoyed Wire In The Blood on TV but books are better. Wish I had read the book before watching it on TV.
I would love to win a copy of Fever of the Bone
I’m a great fan of Val McDermid’s books – I promise to treasure this one if I win it!
Fantastic book- cannot wait to win it and forget about sleep!
Oh I like a good thriller
I bought 2 of Val’s books for 99p each from a charity shop on Friday, Hardback copies and real bargains. The Distant Echo was brilliant and I have just started on A Place of Execution I will have finished in time for this to be my next read.
Oh chilling, would love this x
looks like a good read – would love to win this
Never read your books, always intended to, love a great thriller aka writers Like James Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman. Would love to win this.
My husband would love this, he’s really into books
everythings crossed! thanks for the giveaway.
My husband would love to read this book,he has asked me to enter for him.Would love to win as he loves reading,then passes them to our neighbour to read,it’s Like a wee book club they have.thanks x
Would love to win. Good luck everyone
Would love to find out if it is as intreaging as wire in the blood and if dramatised please let Robson Green be in it so i can swoon again ..:-)
I love Val McDermid! Count me in on the giveaway.
Looks like a fab read. Thanks for the giveaway.
Looks a really good read, as are all her books x
What a clever authour, her stories have more twists and turns to the plot than the maze at Hampton Court. I shall look forward to reading this.