The Distant Echo - Detective Karen Pirie

The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series
The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart...
From the creators of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, KAREN PIRIE is now on ITV, starring Lauren Lyle (Outlander)Some things just won't let go.
The past, for instance.
That night in the cemetery.
The girl's body in the snow.
On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim - find out who really killed Rosie all those years ago...

About the author

Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. 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. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.

Summary

The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what’s still to come will tear them apart…

Product details

• Authors: Val McDermid, McDermid Val
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780008279547
• ISBN: 978-0-00-827954-7
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Detective Karen Pirie; Detective Karen Pirie
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Scotland, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Crime & mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Historical crime & mysteries, Psychological thriller, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Crime & mystery: police procedural, Crime & mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction