Series: Inspector Karen Pirie
by Author Val McDermid
The Distant Echo (2004)
3.5/5 starsOn a cold snowy morning in St Andrews, Scotland in 1978, four drunk university boys returning home from a party, stumbled on a young barmaid fatally stabbed in the local cemetery. She died before help could arrive and the witnesses themselves became the prime suspects. Lack of evidence...
Un territorio oscuro (2008)
Phew! finished. This book is set against the backdrop of the 1980's miners strike in Scotland and all the hardship it entailed. Murder and abduction are investigated as a cold case from those days and there are many unanswered questions. Val McDermid pulled it out of the hat again. Her plot is a ...
A Darker Domain. Val McDermid (2008)
It's interesting that some authors, like Michael Connelly, can write an amazing series of thrillers (the Harry Bosch's), while his other books in the same genre are pretty mundane, leaning toward bad. I've read a lot of Val McDermid, and she fits the same mold. This is definitely not one of her ...
Nacht unter Tag (2008)
My favorite Val McDermid novels are the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, but I enjoyed this one almost as much. I did find the flashbacks to be a bit confusing at times, and I kept mixing up the journalist's and the detective's investigations, but overall I was able to keep the story sorted out. I ...