One example is Val McDermid, whose first book appeared as far back as 1987 ; another is Florida-based author Carl Hiaasen, who has been publishing books since 1981, all of which are readily available.

Val McDermid ( born 4 June 1955 ) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.

The McDermid Stand, which she sponsors, is in Stark's Park, Raith Rovers ground in Kirkcaldy.

McDermid is lesbian.

John Horton McDermid, PC, FRI ( born March 17, 1940 ) is a former Canadian politician.

McDermid considers her work to be part of the " Tartan Noir " Scottish crime fiction genre.

As well as her novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and often broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.

* Val McDermid talks about the novels that have influenced her in the Guardian bookshop challenge

McDermid said of the project, " At its heart it's a teen novel, and a satire-that's something which fits really well with contemporary fiction.

* McDermid, Jane.

In 2012, it was announced that HarperCollins had hired Scottish crime writer Val McDermid to adapt Northanger Abbey for a modern audience, as a suspenseful teen thriller.

John McDermid, with his brother Andrew, established a sawmill here in June 1835 followed by a grist mill.

McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife, and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student from a state school in Scotland ( Kirkcaldy High School ), and became President of the Junior Common Room.

McDermid was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland in 2011.

Starks Park, the McDermid stand visible to the left.

Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Val McDermid, Frederic Lindsay, Christopher Brookmyre, Quintin Jardine, Denise Mina and particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.

* Q. McDermid, A. Patil, and T. Raguimov's paper

In Britain, Scottish-born Val McDermid created lesbian journalist-cum-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, and Joan Smith ( born 1953 ) has gained popularity as the author of a series of Loretta Lawson novels.

In addition to Gordon Brown, celebrity fans include authors Ian Rankin and Val McDermid and Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman.

In June 2011 Val McDermid joined the board of directors.

He has been at the University of York since 1990, and held the post of Head of Department from 1999 until 30 June 2006, when he was succeeded by John McDermid.

McDermid worked in marketing, public relations and broadcasting before entered politics.

Steven Harper states " Wesley does not place the substitionary element primarily within a legal framework ... Rather doctrine seeks to bring into proper relationship the ' justice ' between God's love for persons and God's hatred of sin ... it is not the satisfaction of a legal demand for justice so much as it is an act of mediated reconciliation.

The position of the Harper government is notably in defiance of credible evidence of the harm caused by the decades of drug prohibition, contrary to many US states ( most notably Texas ), which are relaxing drug laws.

In episode 4 of series 1, Dylan states that Beka was captain of the Maru for 10 years, meaning she received official command of the ship from her father in CY 10077 ; in episode 16 of series 4, Harper states that possession of the Maru fell to Beka in CY 10081, the year her father died.

Lex Luthor states that to Roy Harper that he brings his will to his party as Mercy Graves continues the attack on Roy Harper.

Minutes later, Green Arrow and Red Arrow arrive where they see Roy Harper emerge with a briefcase where he states that he didn't kill Lex Luthor .... this time.

" When Green Arrow asks Roy Harper if he is all right, Roy states that Speedy " died a long time ago " and that he now goes by the name of Arsenal.

As in other states, Harper would remain an open-door community college that would offer a few bachelor degree programs in addition to its current offerings.

Lee's sparring partner, Hawkins Cheung states, " Probably fewer than six people in the whole Wing Chun clan were personally taught, or even partly taught, by Yip Man ".

While Chen did not explicitly reject Lee's two states theory, he did not explicitly endorse it either.

By and large, the Glen Canyon Dam's main purpose is to fulfill the agreement in the Colorado River Compact made by the upper basin states to allow at least of water to flow annually past Lee's Ferry for use by Arizona, Nevada and California.

Near Lee's Ferry is where the annual flow of the Colorado River is measured in order to divvy up its water among the seven states that depend on it.

In particular, John D. Lee's 1877 " Confessions " states, speaking about the 1842-43 period:

In Let's Kill Hitler the Doctor states that the notion of temporal grace was " a clever lie " on his part.

Served up devilishly as a " Handel's Messiah from hell ", HuG continued to grow harder and heavier touring the states in support of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and in direct support of Al Jourgensen's Ministry for a three-month stint on their " Evil Doer Tour " throughout the U. S. and Canada.

And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.

Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.

The House communications subcommittee is expected to report out a good bill calling for the states to match federal funds.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Of these states the average `` change-over '' point ( at which a car is substituted for allowances ) is 13,200 miles per year.

A review of practices in other states regarding fiscal uniformity is pertinent to this report.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

The drug's chemical name is listed, since most states require feed processors to use this name instead of the trade name on the feed tag.

There is a well-known relationship between probability and entropy which states that Af, where **zq is the probability that state ( i.e., volume for an ideal gas ) could be reached by chance alone.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

In view of the important role which emotional disturbances play in the genesis of neurotic and psychotic disorders and the parallelism observed between autonomic states and psychological behavior in several instances, it is further suggested that a hypothalamic imbalance may play an important role in initiating mental changes.

In most states, trade and industrial training is provided in a minority of the high schools, usually located in the larger cities.

that is, from aspects of a universal system of Justice into particular rules governing the relations of sovereign states.

It is not surprising that the international obligations of states were also viewed in terms of contract.

A tax-free reorganization not complying with the merger or consolidation statutes of the states involved is difficult to fit into an `` operation of law '' mold.

It is disconcerting, nevertheless, to read in a labor weekly, `` Perluss knuckles down to growers '', and then to be confronted with a growers' publication which states, `` Perluss recognizes obviously phony and trumped-up strikes as bona fide ''.

Or is this subject a matter of self-determination, a matter of states rights or county rights??

If the problem is enlarged to require a complete coverage of feed states, Af operations are needed by the dynamic program and Af by the direct search.