title: Trick of the Dark
author:  Val McDermid 
description: When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college - a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn't know who sent the package, or why, yet she can't get the crime out of her head. But as she delves deeper, and steps back into the mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye...
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  Val McDermid is a top ten bestseller, translated into more than thirty
  languages, with over two million copies sold in the UK and over ten million
  worldwide.
  
  
  She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for
  best crime novel of the year and the the Stonewall Writer of the Year Award.
  In 2011, Val was the recipient of the Pioneer Award at the 23rd Annual Lambda
  Literary Awards.
  
  
  In 2010, she was awarded the prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. This
  followed her induction into the Hall of Fame at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards
  in 2009, the same year in which she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at
  St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Also by Val
  McDermid](CR%216D4NKWDB1958719DAMPZTZ5B8PTV_split_003.html#filepos7262)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _A Place of Execution_
  
  
  _Killing the Shadows_
  
  
  _The Distant Echo_
  
  
  _The Grave Tattoo_
  
  
  _A Darker Domain_
  
  
  _Trick of the Dark_
  
  
  _The Vanishing Point_
  
  
  
  
  
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