The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (English) Paperback Book

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The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie seriesThe award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart…

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The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie seriesThe award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's 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 won't let go.The past, for instance.That night in the cemetery.The girl's 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 Rosie's 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…

Notes

In this standalone psychological thriller from the Gold Dagger-winning crime fiction icon, four drunken students find a body in a Pictish graveyard and become suspects in the murder. When the case is reviewed twenty-five years later the four remain suspects, but two of them proceed to die in suspicious circumstances. The two left set about finding what really happened all those years ago, to maintain their freedoms and also their lives.

Author Biography

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.

Review

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 she'll 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 TelegraphPraise for Val McDermid:'The queen of crime' Independent'No one rivals Val McDermid's 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'McDermid's 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 today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review'Her writing is never less than excellent' Crime Time

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Now on ITV: The gripping thriller from the author of Sunday Times crime fiction bestsellers

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'A classic ... McDermid pulls out all the stops. Impeccable' Guardian 'A few more sly, old-fashioned whodunits like this and she'll 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

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Now on ITV: The gripping thriller from the author of Sunday Times crime fiction bestsellers

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Now on ITV: The gripping thriller from the author of Sunday Times crime fiction bestsellers * Re-issued with smart new livery, this is the utterly compelling psychological thriller that introduced Karen Pirie * The television adaptations of her Tony Hill novels The Wire in the Blood, were a huge success and received ecstatic reviews. * Gold Dagger award winner Val McDermid is a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and widely regarded as the queen of crime fiction * Val McDermid has a huge fanbase, with over 49k Twitter followers and 10k likes on Facebook Competition: Finders Keepers, The Blood Road, The Midnight Line, Burial of Ghosts, Cold Granite,The Hermitage, Fatal Promise, Perfect Silence. Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, Ann Cleeves, Ian Rankin, James Patterson, Lee Child, Tony Hill, Stephen King, Angela Marsons

Details ISBN0008279543 Pages 576 Series Detective Karen Pirie Year 2018 ISBN-10 0008279543 ISBN-13 9780008279547 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 823.914 Language English Publication Date 2018-06-14 UK Release Date 2018-06-14 Illustrator Barbara McClintock Birth 1949 Affiliation San Diego State University Position Professor of English Qualifications Ph.D. Author Val McDermid Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780007327652 Series Number Book 1 Audience General Imprint HarperCollins AU Release Date 2018-06-03 NZ Release Date 2018-06-03 We've got this

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