'The bodies never stay buried forever...'

On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets.

But Karen is already grappling with another case, one with even more questions and fewer answers. A skeleton has been discovered in an abandoned campervan and all clues point to a killer who never faced justice - a killer who is still out there.

In her search for the truth, Karen uncovers a network of lies that has gone unchallenged for years. But lies and secrets can turn deadly when someone is determined to keep them hidden for good....

Author

Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven 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 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. 

She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.

Country of Origin

Books:

Series:

Series: Allie Burns

Book Number:
2
2022
Book Number:
1
2021

Series: Carol Jordan and Tony Hill

Book Number:
11
2019
Book Number:
6
2009
Book Number:
5
2008

Series: Karen Pirie

Book Number:
6
2020

Series: Maggie Staniforth

Book Number:
1
2012
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Review TRICK OF THE DARK - Val McDermid
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Review FEVER OF THE BONE - Val McDermid
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Review BENEATH THE BLEEDING - Val McDermid
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Fever of the Bone, Val McDermid
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Review CRIMINAL TENDENCIES - (Edited by Lynne Patrick)
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Beneath the Bleeding, Val McDermid
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Blog Currently Reading - Criminal Tendencies (forwarded by Mark Billingham)
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Review FEVER OF THE BONE - Val McDermid
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Review A Darker Domain - Val McDermid
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Blog Currently Reading - A Darker Domain, Val McDermid
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Blog Val McDermid's A PLACE OF EXECUTION made into 3 part tv series
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Review THE GRAVE TATTOO - Val McDermid
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Monday, October 1, 2007
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