Val McDermid

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The Skeleton Road: A Karen Pirie NovelPaperback, 8 December 2015

The Skeleton Road: A Karen Pirie Novel
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Part of Series
Karen Pirie Novels
Print Length
423 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Grove Press
Date Published
8 Dec 2015
ISBN-10
0802124216
ISBN-13
9780802124210

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"Heart wrenching. . . . McDermid delves ever more deeply into the psyches of the major characters . . . [and] excels in putting the reader at the center of the action. . . The Skeleton Road does an excellent job of wrangling with these big ideas inside a tightly paced mystery."--Janet Napolitano, Los Angeles Times

The Skeleton Road, now available in paperback, is a gripping standalone novel about a cold case that links back to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In the center of historic Edinburgh, 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. But 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 that 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 [is] a deft hand at crafting murder mysteries heavily laced with psychological suspense. . . Evocative writing . . . From vertiginous start to electrifying finale, The Skeleton Road delivers twists-a-plenty in this tautly-told tale."--Daneet Steffens, The Boston Globe

"Melds the political thriller with the police procedural . . . Feels both intensely personal and global. . . . Karen . . . once again proves herself a formidable character worthy of her own series." --Oline H. Cogdill, Associated Press

Product Details

Author:
Val McDermid
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
8 December 2015
Dimensions:
20.83 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm
Genre:
Mother's Day
ISBN-10:
0802124216
ISBN-13:
9780802124210
Language:
English
Pages:
423
Publisher:
Weight:
362.87 gm

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