Out of Bounds

Informationen zum Autor Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over seventeen 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 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 six 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. Klappentext The new novel from international bestselling author! Val McDermid Number one bestseller Val McDermid is back with her most gripping, chilling, suspenseful novel yet. Zusammenfassung 'There were a lot of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car, a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a twenty-year-old murder inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at solving the unsolvable. With each cold case closed, justice is served. So, finding the answer should be straightforward, but it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another case, one that she has no business investigating. And as she pieces together decades-old evidence, Karen discovers the most dangerous kind of secrets. Secrets that someone is willing to kill for . . . Number one bestseller Val McDermid returns with her most atmospheric, spine-chilling and gripping novel to date. ...

Product details

• Authors: CJMB Limited, Val McDermid
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2016
• EAN: 9781408706923
• ISBN: 978-1-4087-0692-3
• No. of pages: 421
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Karen Pirie; Karen Pirie
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Schottische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural