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Val McDermid

Silent Bones

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Silent Bones: The powerful new Karen Pirie thriller from the no.1 bestselling author

Val McDermid

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- Book Hero
- BookHub
- Paper Plus
- The Nile
- The Warehouse
- Unity Books
- Whitcoulls
- Book Hero
- BookHub
- Paper Plus
- The Nile
- The Warehouse
- Unity Books
- Whitcoulls
- Book Hero
- BookHub
- Paper Plus
- The Nile
- The Warehouse
- Unity Books
- Whitcoulls

THE POWERFUL NEW THRILLER IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

'Beautifully structured, witty and twisty' ANN CLEEVES

'A perfect crime novel' KATE MOSSE

'Powerful, moving and wise' HARLAN COBEN

'Full of humour, heart and trademark twists' CHRIS WHITAKER

The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . .

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancee when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why.

Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like murder. But what did Tom Jamieson's book club have to do with his demise - and what will they do to keep their secrets?

Karen and her team begin to untangle a web of lies, one that connects their murder cases with Scotland's rich and powerful. They will be tested to their limits - and possibly beyond . . .

'Blends procedural tension with eerie rural isolation' I PAPER

'Showcases the agile plotting that makes this among the best crime fiction series today' IRISH TIMES

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Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over seventeen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011.

In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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