Out of Bounds
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4.3 • 50 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Forensic evidence leads to places a Scottish cop never expected in “a thriller as steely and superlative as its heroine” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
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. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself.
Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems.
From a Diamond Dagger Award-winning author, Out of Bounds is a riveting cold case novel starring detective Karen Pirie, who’s been described by the Associated Press as “a formidable character worthy of her own series.”
“I would like to see a great deal more of DCI Pirie.” —Irish Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of Scottish author McDermid's engaging if at times overstuffed third Karen Pirie novel (after 2014's The Skeleton Road), 17-year-old Ross Garvie and three mates steal a Land Rover after a night of drinking in Dundee. The subsequent high-speed crash on the Perth road kills his friends and leaves Garvie in a coma. Pirie, head of Police Scotland's tiny Historic Cases Unit in Edinburgh, is intrigued when Garvie's DNA is a familial match to the 20-year-old unsolved rape and murder case of a Glasgow hairdresser. Complications ensue when Pirie tries to track down Garvie's male relatives. Meanwhile, Pirie is hung up on the death of Fife man Gabriel Abbott and how his death is or isn't linked to that of his mother in a plane crash 22 years earlier, though it's not Pirie's case. Authorities assumed the plane exploded due to an IRA bomb, but Pirie isn't so sure. Pirie, a tough heroine cut from the same cloth as McDermid's other fictional stalwart, Carol Jordan, never backs down from a thorny question or a seemingly impossible case.
