Allelujah! Val McDermid this is ultimately Judi's love

this is ultimately Judi's love letter to Shakespeare

Except that the village's very isolation has made it the perfect location for experiments of sheer

Hours later the dead girl stirs

from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award

From inventing the Marble Run to designing the iconic Raleigh Chopper bike and creating the Bond Bug

Allelujah! Val McDermid this is ultimately Judi's loveWhat were you in life? In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle to grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward. Meanwhile, the old