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Inspector Karen Pirie Serie

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.

Still Life
La primera piedra
Out Of Bounds
The Skeleton Road
Detective Karen Pirie - 2: A Darker Domain
The Distant Echo

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  1. The Distant Echo

    • 576 páginas
    • 21 horas de lectura

    Powerful and atmospheric psychological thriller from the multi-award-winning Val McDermid: 'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The TimesSOME THINGS JUST WON'T LET YOU GOThe past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow, her blood scarlet against the white ground... Four a. m. on a freezing Fife morning and four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman lying 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 one of them dies in a suspicious house fire and another in a burglary gone bad, 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...

    The Distant Echo1
    3,9

  2. Detective Karen Pirie - 2: A Darker Domain

    • 371 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    Past and present intertwine in this rare stand-alone novel of taut psychological drama--a brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed from the bestselling mistress of suspense. Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace--until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation. Fife, 1984. At the height of the politically charged national miners' strike, Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers down south. Labelled a blackleg scab, he's as good as dead as far as his friends and relatives care. Twenty-three years later, a young woman walks into a police station to report Mick Prentice missing. Detective Karen Pirie, head of the Cold Case Review Team, wants to know why it's taken so long for anyone to notice. For Pirie, already immersed in the Prentice investigation, a second foray into a 1980s investigation gone cold--this time, the Grant kidnapping--offers an opportunity to make her mark. But it's sure to come at an extremely high price. As she works to unravel these mysteries, two decades of secrets will lead Karen Pirie into a dark domain of violence and betrayal--darker than any she has yet encountered.

    Detective Karen Pirie - 2: A Darker Domain2
    3,8

  3. The Skeleton Road

    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.

    The Skeleton Road3
    3,8

  4. Out Of Bounds

    • 496 páginas
    • 18 horas de lectura

    Number one bestseller Val McDermid is back with her most gripping, chilling and suspenseful novel yet.

    Out Of Bounds4
    4,0

  5. La primera piedra

    • 432 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    ¡Ninguna tumba es lo suficientemente profunda para la verdad! Una mohorra en las Tierras Altas de Escocia se convierte en el quinto caso sin resolver para la DCI Karen Pirie. La búsqueda del misterioso legado de su abuelo lleva a una joven inglesa a las Highlands, donde encuentra un lugar en el pantano en un mapa provisional. Allí descubre una motocicleta americana bien conservada de 1944, así como un cadáver masculino que es claramente más joven. La DCI Karen Pirie, especializada en casos sin resolver, está en la zona por otro caso, pero el muerto en el pantano no le da paz. Lleva unas zapatillas Nike especiales, un modelo personalizado de 1995, y claramente no ha muerto de causas naturales. Con la carismática y tenaz Karen Pirie, la autora británica Val McDermid ha creado una comisaria que se adentra en un caso sin resolver con más determinación a medida que el enigma se vuelve más complicado.

    La primera piedra5
    4,1

  6. Still Life

    • 528 páginas
    • 19 horas de lectura

    On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets. But Karen is already grappling with another case, one with even more questions and fewer answers. A skeleton has been discovered in an abandoned campervan and all clues point to a killer who never faced justice - a killer who is still out there. In her search for the truth, Karen uncovers a network of lies that has gone unchallenged for years. But lies and secrets can turn deadly when someone is determined to keep them hidden for good...

    Still Life6
    4,1