Silent Bones starts with a party.
This is the 8th novel in the Karen Pirie series DCI Karen Pirie heads Police Scotland’s Historic Case Unit (HCU). We Americans would call it cold cases. The Scots prefer the “Historic” designation. I’ve read several in this series and completely enjoyed each of them.
Val McDermid has been called the “Queen of Crime” by the Scotsman. In my experience her books have been wonderful. I eagerly requested an Advance Reader’s Copy (ARC) when I saw one was available for Val McDermid’s latest novel.
Readers of recent books in the Karen Pirie series will be familiar HCU team of Karen, Jason, and Daisy and will enjoy reading about them again. But I believe this book also works as a stand-alone novel.
It is a complicated novel, reinvestigating several cases the police had closed without realizing that they were related. A few words to get you started – body, motorway, party, stairs, and comedy. And as usual in this type of book – murder.
Enjoy!
I thank both Netgalley and Grove Atlantic for the chance to read this before publication. The book will be published on December 2.
