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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking...
2) 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
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
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
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are discovered in a far corner, young men from as recently as ten years ago. Meanwhile, Tony is behind bars for murder, and Carol has finally run out of road as a cop. While he's finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail, she's looking into...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
George Bennett agrees to tell journalist Catherine Heathcote about his most difficult case, the disappearance of a young girl from an insular community that distrusts the outside world, but just days before the story is supposed to be published, George pulls the plug, claiming he has new information about the case that threatens his life.
9) Dead beat
Author
Series
Kate Brannigan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bloody Brits Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a Thai boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester. As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to uncover the source of counterfeit...
10) 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...
11) The retribution
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tony Hill has had a good run. He and detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance, ex-celebrity and sociopath whose brilliance and utter lack of remorse have never left Tony's mind in the ten years since his imprisonment. Now Jacko has escaped from prison-even more twisted and...
12) The grave tattoo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, having grown up hearing stories that mutineer Fletcher Christian returned from exile on Pitcairn Island to live out his life in England, is inspired when a two-hundred-year-old corpse bearing South Pacific tattoos washes out of a hillside in the Lake District, to hunt for a rumored manuscript Wordsworth wrote about Christian's adventures, not realizing there are others who want the lost poem for personal gain and are...
Author
Series
Lindsay Gordon mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Spinster Ink
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1984, after the traumatizing death of her closest friend, amateur sleuth and former reporter Lindsay Gordon left England for California. Nine years later, she finds herself back in her homeland, gathering data for her doctoral thesis. At a journalists' union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay reluctantly reenters the bullying, back-stabbing world of union politics. Shortly after she quarrels with the controversial, homophobic union boss Tom Jack,...
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....
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