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(0)Val McDermid
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A woman digs up a buried treasure—and a buried body—in the Scottish Highlands: “There are few other crime writers in the same league.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet
2) 1989
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning author Val McDermid offers up a suspense-filled stand-alone novel with A Darker Domain. Karen Pirie is the newly appointed Deputy Inspector of the Cold Case Unit, and her first investigation takes her 25 years into the past to the national miners' strike. At the time, a kidnapping gone wrong left a small boy missing, but new evidence suggests he might still be alive. As Pirie delves deeper, she realizes the boy's disapperance may be...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid is one of the most dependable professionals in the mystery and thriller business, whose acutely suspenseful, seamlessly plotted novels have riveted millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, THE SKELETON ROAD, she delivers a gripping standalone novel about a cold case that links to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stunning new cold case novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid about a car crash that opens up an unsolved murder from decades before Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie. When a teenage joyrider...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they're not talking doesn't mean the killing stops.
Someone is killing women. Women who bear an unsettling resemblance to Carol Jordan. And when the evidence begins to point in a disturbing direction, thinking the unthinkable seems the only possible answer. Cornered by events, Tony and Carol are forced to...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
'Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, until Jay turns her sights on newly-wed and freshly-widowed Magda Newsam. For Magda's mother Corinna is an Oxford don who knows enough of Jay's history to be very afraid indeed. Determined to protect her daughter, Corinna turns to...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
15) Still life
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
16) Past lying
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
Author
Publisher
Spinsters Ink
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A demonstration by a women's peace movement against a nuclear missile base in England ends in a death and a woman is falsely accused of murder. Lesbian reporter Lindsay Gordon sets out to clear the woman's name. By the author of Clean Break.
18) Insidious intent
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
