About the book: 2021 / Val McDermid became a journalist. She worked for two years in Devon, where she won the Trainee Journalist of the Year award, and then at newspapers in Glasgow and Manchester. The first attempt to create a novel was unsuccessful - almost all leading publishing houses returned the manuscript. Fortunately for her, her friend, an actor, drew attention to the content of the novel. He advised her to rework the work into a play, and the drama “Like a Happy Ending” was successfully staged on the theater stage, and later sounded in a radio play on the BBC. Inspired by the “New Wave” (“second generation”) of American detective writers (especially S. Paretsky), McDermid turned to the detective genre. "A Report on Murder" began in 1984 and was published in 1987. McDiarmid is developing several series of works - novels about private detectives Lindsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan, police officer Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill. It is difficult to name an award for the best work of the crime genre that would not be in its honorable collection. In 1995, McDiarmid's novel The Singing Mermaids won the Golden Dagger Award for best detective novel of the year. 2006 brought her another award - the Theakston's Old Peculiar festival prize for the fourth book in the series about the adventures of detective Tony Hill and his partner Carol Jordan. The images of these heroes are superbly embodied by the famous English actors Robson Green and Hermione Norris in the television series "Tight String", which has been running for the fourth season in a row on the BBC worldwide network. In addition, Val McDermid's work has won the Barry, Macavity and Anthony awards (Execution Place, 2001). Contents: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan: 1. Songs of the Sirens (Translation: Isabella Bochkareva)2. Tight string (Translation: Maria Vitkovskaya)3. The last temptation (Translation: Lyudmila Volodarskaya)4. Someone else's torment (Translation: Irina Gilyarova)5. Secret wounds (Translation: Alexey Kapanadze)6. Deprived of flesh (Translation: Alexandra Golovina)7. Retribution (Translation: Vladimir Grishechkin) Kate Brannigan: 1 Killer Rhythm (Translation: M. Rubinstein) 2 Big Rollback (Translation: Elena Moiseeva) Beyond the Cycles: 1. Distant Echo (Translation: Elena Levina) 2 Hunting for Shadows (Translation: Lyudmila Volodarskaya)3 Report on the murder (Translation: M. Keller)