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2016., Adult, Grove Atlantic Call No: SC MYS Fic MCD Edition: Paperback Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Karen Pirie novels Volume: 4Summary Note: "Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie. 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. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems. An enthralling, twisty read, Out of Bounds reaffirms Val McDermid's place as one of the most dependable professionals in the mystery and thriller business."--From publisher.
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2014., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: SC MYS Fic McD Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Karen Pirie novels Volume: 2Summary Note: A skeleton is discovered in an apparently inaccessible Gothic pinnacle on a derelict school. Cold-case detective Karen Pirie is called in when investigations reveal this is no recent death. The stakes rise when unexpected connections to the Balkan wars are uncovered. When evil has no borders and the past refuses to stay in the past, everyone involved is placed into new and unforeseen danger.
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2020., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: SC MYS Fic Mcd Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Karen Pirie novel.Summary Note: "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 body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation. At the same time, a woman in the wealthy enclave of Perth is clearing out her sister's home after a fatal road accident and finds a mysterious camper van in the garage containing a skeletonized body. But who is it? And how long has it been there? The two cases will draw Karen into the world of imposters, identity theft, and art forgery"--
