Esta apasionante serie de crímenes sigue a una detective tenaz que opera en la histórica región de Fife, Escocia. Cada entrega presenta un nuevo caso complejo, adentrándose en secretos oscuros y tramas intrincadas. La autora crea magistralmente escenarios atmosféricos y estudios de personajes cautivadores. Los lectores que disfrutan de misterios desafiantes y el ambiente melancólico de la costa escocesa encontrarán mucho que saborear.
Twenty-five years after an unsolved rape and murder, four friends, having been falsely accused of the crime, find themselves targeted by someone who still believes that they are guilty, prompting a search for the real killer.
Past and present intertwine in this brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed from bestselling mistress of suspense Val McDermid. Fife, Scotland, 1984. Mick Prentice abandons his family at the height of a politically charged national miners' strike to join the strikebreakers down south. Despised and disowned by friends and relatives, he is not reported missing until twenty-three years later. Fife, Scotland, 1985. Kidnapped heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant is killed and her baby son vanishes when the ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. In 2008, a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation. Already immersed in the Prentice affair, Detective Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case Review Team, wants to make her mark with this second unsolved 1980s mystery. But two decades' worth of secrets are leading Pirie into a dark domain of violence and betrayal—a place darker than any she has previously entered.
Don't miss the electrifying new Karen Pirie thriller - STILL LIFE is available to preorder now ___________________ The third book in the Karen Pirie series, from No. 1 bestselling author Val McDermid. When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones. As Karen's investigation gathers momentum, she is drawn deeper into a dark world of intrigue and betrayal. Meanwhile, someone is taking the law into their own hands in the name of justice and revenge -- but when present resentment collides with secrets of the past, the truth is more shocking than anyone could have imagined . . . From number one bestseller, Val McDermid comes an atmospheric, spine-chilling tour de force -- her richest and most accomplished psychological thriller to date.
Number one bestseller Val McDermid is back with her most gripping, chilling and suspenseful novel yet.
Praise for Val McDermid: 'Brilliant . . . Sensational . . . Unforgettable' - Guardian 'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' - Daily Express 'Compulsively readable' - Irish Times 'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' - Literary Review 'As good a psychological thriller as it is possible to get' - Sunday Express 'It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go' - Daily Mail Discover the phenomenal, heart-pounding new novel from the queen of crime and number one bestseller, Val McDermid.