An Evening with Val McDermid - Silent Bones

Name: An Evening with Val McDermid - Silent Bones
Start: 2025-10-30T19:30:00.000000Z
End: 2025-10-30T20:45:00.000000Z
Location: Assembly Roxy

WithVal McDermid
In conversation withNicola Sturgeon

At: Assembly Roxy

On:30th October 2025, 7:30pm - 8:45pm

Attendance options:

Early Bird - Book & In-person Audience£20.00*Limited* Early bird in-person event access, plus an unsigned copy of Silent Bones with a £2 discount (RRP £22.00) - Limited to 4 per person

Early Bird - In-Person Audience£15.00*Limited* Early bird in-person event access - Limited to 2 per person

Book & In-person Audience£22.00In-person access, along with a physical copy of Silent Bones (RRP £22.00) - Limited to 4 per person

In-person Audience£18.00In-person event access - Limited to 4 per person

Free In-person Audience£0.00In-person event access - Limited to 1 per person- Free access is limited, so please consider leaving for those who can't afford other options

Book & Livestream£22.00Online-only access, along with a physical copy of Silent Bones

Voucher & Livestream£5.00Online-only access, with a £5.00 voucher to redeem against Silent Bones on our website

Free Livestream£0.00Online-only access via our livestream - Limited to 1 per person- Free access is limited, so please consider leaving for those who can't afford other options

An Evening with Val McDermid - Silent Bones at Assembly Roxy

We are absolutely delighted to be hosting Val McDermid's Edinburgh launch of the latest Karen Pirie thriller, Silent Bones. Join us in welcoming the Quine of Crime to the Assembly Roxy for an evening event that's set to be as thrillingly entertaining as McDermid's novels, as she will be in conversation with Nicola Sturgeon. Both Val and Nicola have always been hugely supportive of our shop, and indeed indie bookshops generally, and we're really looking forward to a special evening to launch Val's latest book.

Doors due to open at 6.45pm. Books will be available to collect at the venue on the night.

This event will take place at the Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place. There will be a book signing following the event.

About Silent Bones:

The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . .

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancée when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like murder. But what did Tom Jamieson’s book club have to do with his demise – and what will they do to keep their secrets?

Karen and her team begin to untangle a web of lies, one which connects their murder cases with Scotland’s rich and powerful. They will be tested to their limits – and possibly beyond . . .

Please note: Tickets for our events are non-refundable. Professional photography and videography may take place during this event. Thank you for your understanding.

Signed & Dedicated Edition

Other Book Event events

Participants:

Val McDermid Author

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

Nicola Sturgeon Chair

Nicola Sturgeon served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023 and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament since its establishment in 1999. As leader of the SNP, she worked with five British Prime Ministers, from David Cameron to Rishi Sunak.

The venue

Assembly Roxy

2 Roxburgh Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9SU

Telephone: 0131 623 3001

Website: assemblyfestival.com/roxy/about-assembly-roxy

Venue Accessibility: There is step-free access to the venue on arrival. There is also an accessible toilet located on the same floor with level access.