The Distant Echo (Detective Karen Pirie, Book 1)

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The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series

The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but whats still to come will tear them apart
From the creators of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, KAREN PIRIE is now on ITV, starring Lauren Lyle (Outlander)

Some things just wont let go.
The past, for instance.
That night in the cemetery.
The girls body in the snow.

On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood.

Twenty-five years later the police mount a cold case review of Rosies unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim find out who really killed Rosie all those years ago

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Praise for The Distant Echo:

A classic McDermid pulls out all the stops. Impeccable Guardian

A few more sly, old-fashioned whodunits like this and shell join the sturdy ranks of the queens of crime, on course to become Dame Val or Baroness McDermid Sunday Times

She has created some of the most appealing figures in current crime fiction. Val McDermid has used the crime genre to write a novel that, above everything else, celebrates life and loyalty TLS

A real page-turner and another McDermid triumph Observer

A powerful story of murder and revenge an exciting page-turner Sunday Telegraph

Praise for Val McDermid:

The queen of crime Independent

'No one rivals Val McDermids skill at writing truly terrifying thrillers Good Housekeeping

The real mistress of psychological gripping thrillers' Daily Express

'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The Times

Val McDermid is undoubtedly the queen of British crime Observer

'McDermids expertly juggled plotlines and masterful handling of pace and tension tick all the best boxes Guardian

The queen of crime is still at the top of her game Independent

One of todays most accomplished crime writers Literary Review

Her writing is never less than excellent Crime Time

Author Bio

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.