This Door of the Seas

Val McDermid's bestselling novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger and Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding achievement. The Karen Pirie novels have been adapted into an Edgar Award-nominated ITV/BritBox show. She is also a five-time finalist for the Edgar Award, including Fact Crime nominee Forensics and most recently the Sue Grafton Memorial Award nominee Past Lying . She lives in Scotland.

Jo Sharp is Professor of Geography at the University of St. Andrews with expertise in geopolitics, global health, feminism, and international development. She has over 100 publications, including 13 books. Jo has been awarded medals from both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was named the Geographer Royal for Scotland in 2022 - the first woman to hold this title - and it was her investigation into the first person to hold this role, Sir Robert Sibbald in 1682, that led her to This Door of the Seas .