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.
Val McDermid is the award-winning, international bestselling author of
more than thirty novels and has been hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime.
In Still Life, McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring DCI
Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of
forgery, where things are never what they seem.
When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of
Forth, Karen is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the
case will require untangling a complicated web--including a historic
disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities--that seems to orbit
around a painting copyist who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney.
Meanwhile, a traffic crash leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a
suburban garage. Needless to say, Karen has her plate full. Meanwhile,
the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is being
released from prison, reopening old wounds just as she was getting back
on her feet.
Tightly plotted and intensely gripping, Still Life is Val McDermid at
her best, and new and longtime readers alike will delight in the latest
addition to this superior series.