The Skeleton Road The Skeleton Road

The Skeleton Road

    • 4.1 • 37 Ratings
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Publisher Description

An Edinburgh detective encounters skeletal remains that may be connected to the brutal Balkan Wars of the 1990s in this “tightly paced mystery” (Los Angeles Times).

In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years. Who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse’s identity. And when it turns out the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it.

“McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel.”—Associated Press

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2014
December 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
417
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grove Atlantic
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
3.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Longjing54 ,

Political History as Police Procedural

Though not so long ago, the Balkan wars of 1990s have been relegated to the half-remembered (and, to be frank, pre-9/11) past by many of us outside the region. The Skeleton Road takes the wars as the frame for this great police procedural with a quartet of strong female characters.

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