Silent Bones
The brand-new, iconic Karen Pirie thriller from the no.1 bestselling author
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- 99,00 kr
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- 99,00 kr
Publisher Description
THE POWERFUL NEW THRILLER IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES
'Beautifully structured, witty and twisty' ANN CLEEVES
'A perfect crime novel' KATE MOSSE
'Powerful, moving and wise' HARLAN COBEN
'Full of humour, heart and trademark twists' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A corkscrew twist at every turn' DAILY MAIL
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The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . .
When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancée when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why.
Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like murder. But what did Tom Jamieson's book club have to do with his demise - and what will they do to keep their secrets?
Karen and her team begin to untangle a web of lies, one that connects their murder cases with Scotland's rich and powerful. They will be tested to their limits - and possibly beyond . . .
'Blends procedural tension with eerie rural isolation' I PAPER
'Showcases the agile plotting that makes this among the best crime fiction series today' IRISH TIMES
'Fiendishly elaborate plotting [and] it's fun to read too' SCOTSMAN
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McDermid is at the top of her game in the masterful latest installment of her DCI Karen Pirie series (after Past Lying). When human remains are discovered in a collapsed section of Scotland's M73 highway, Karen calls on detective sergeants Daisy Mortimer and Jason "The Mint" Murray to investigate. Meanwhile, in a separate case, Daisy interviews Drew Jamieson, who's gathered evidence that his brother Tom's fatal fall on Edinburgh's Scotsman Steps several years earlier may have been murder, despite police insistence that it was an accident. Staff at the nearby Scott Monument Hotel recall a disagreement between Tom and the hotel's sommelier, Bob Watson, because Watson quit the pair's football club to join a mysterious book group called the Justified Sinners. When the M73 remains are identified as those of investigative journalist Sam Nimmo, who disappeared from the scene of his girlfriend's murder a decade ago, Pirie pinpoints a connection between Sam's death, Tom's death, and the Justified Sinners, and sends her team barreling after the shadowy organization. McDermid's procedural instincts are as sharp as ever, and she balances them with wrenching developments in Karen's personal life, including her fraught relationship with Syrian activist Rafiq Yasin. Readers will rest easy knowing they're in the hands of a seasoned storyteller.
