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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"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 hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems. And as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its...
3) Crack down
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume 3
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When charred human remains are discovered in the driver's seat of a burning car, DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill are brought in to investigate. They soon discover that what appeared to be a terrible accident is, in fact, murder. Delving deeper into the case, they begin the dangerous hunt for a most sinister killer with the power to inflict untold fear and pain on their victims.
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When remains are found in the pinnacle of a Victorian Gothic building in Edinburgh, Karen Pirie stumbles into a cold case linked to the Balkan Wars.
6) 1989
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
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"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 media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. Theyear begins with the memorial service for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Jacko Vance is an ex-celebrity and sociopath whose brilliance and utter lack of remorse have never left Tony's mind in the ten years since his imprisonment. Now Jacko has escaped from prison, and he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony and Carol for his years spent in prison.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes.
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"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
12) Past lying
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 7
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
13) Still life
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
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...
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