Lost Detectives Podcast - Episode 5 by University of St Andrews published on 2021-05-07T08:08:43Z Dr Claire Whitehead and Carol Adlam interview bestselling and award-winning crime writer, Val McDermid, about her various experiences of adaptation. Their conversation covers Val’s very first novel which, although never published, was adapted into a stage play; the radio adaptations of her Kate Brannigan novel Clean Break; the ITV series Wire in the Blood and the mini-series A Place of Execution by Coastal Productions. They also chat about the TV series Traces, set in a sunny Dundee and her collaboration with the artist Kathryn Briggs on the forthcoming graphic novel, Resistance, due for publication in May 2021 and which is based on Val’s original BBC radio play from 2017. Val is also kind enough to share her insights into crime fiction’s potential for adaptation, the filming of the first of her Karen Pirie novels, A Distant Echo, in Fife and her favourite foreign crime writers and TV series. Genre Podcast