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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far.
In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away - only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations.
Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate - but this may be the toughest...
3) Still life
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 to die 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case Review Team, investigates the 1985 murder of an heiress and the disappearance of her son, along with the disappearance of Mick Prentice, who in 1984, left to join a miners' strike.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
7) Past lying
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
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