Inspector Karen Pirie Series by Val McDermid

4.02 · 126 ratings
  • The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie #1)
    #1

    The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie #1)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2003

    It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood on their hands, no one was ever charged.Twenty five years later, the Cold Case file on Rosie Duff has been reopened. For Alex and his friends, the investigation has also opened old wounds, haunting memories-and new fears... more

  • A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie #2)
    #2

    A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie #2)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2008

    Past and present intertwine in this rare stand-alone novel of taut psychological drama—a brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed from the bestselling mistress of suspense.Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace—until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation.Fife, 1984... more

  • The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie #3)
    #3

    The Skeleton Road (Inspector Karen Pirie #3)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2014

    In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years... more

  • Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie #4)
    #4

    Out of Bounds (Inspector Karen Pirie #4)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2016

    Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie.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... more

  • Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie #5)
    #5

    Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie #5)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2018

    Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet.Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II... more

  • Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie #6)
    #6

    Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie #6)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2020

    From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery.When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, Karen is called into investigate... more

  • Silent Bones (Inspector Karen Pirie #8)
    #8

    Silent Bones (Inspector Karen Pirie #8)

    Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2025

    The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there? Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a  motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior... more

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