The Distant Echo: Book 1 (Detective Karen Pirie)

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This superb novel should make Gold Dagger-nominee McDermid's reputation and bring her new readers in droves.

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outstanding pacing, character and plot development, plus evocative place descriptions, make this another winner. Spluttering snow, he wiped his eyes with his tingling fingers, breathing hard through his nose in a bid to clear it of the freezing melt. An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England's Lake District. But Rosie’s two brothers haven’t forgotten or forgiven, and her illegitimate son Graham is skulking about with vengeance in mind. Murder Plotlets - Proving innocence of very obvious suspect Kind of investigator - police procedural, British Kid or adult book?iNews– This adaptation of the first of Val McDermid’s bestselling series, starring Lauren Lyle as a gutsy twentysomething sleuth, is a refreshing take on the genre. British PI Kate Brannigan persuades her lover, Richard, to help out in an investigation of auto-financing fraud. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Val McDermid is going from strength to strength… the way she dances effortlessly between so many important characters and switches between events in 1978 and others in 2003 is a delight to observe and read… [There is] mounting suspense as the novel reaches its ingenious climax. The Independent– Val McDermid adaptation hits each benchmark of a good detective thriller with the resounding thud of an assassinated key witness meeting the hard concrete of an empty car park.

The Distant Echo By Val McDermid | Used | 9780008279547 The Distant Echo By Val McDermid | Used | 9780008279547

Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. On 23 October 2016 McDermid married her partner of two years, Jo Sharp, a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow. McDermid (A Clean Break) enters new ground with a dark tale that is more complex, more carefully crafted and far more disturbing than her Kate Brannigan mysteries. Jane Graham, Val McDermid: "There were no lesbians in Fife in the 1960s", The Big Issue, 7 February 2018.Outstanding pacing, character and plot development, plus evocative place descriptions, make this another winner. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman.

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Twenty-five years later, the police started a cold case review; technological advances should help convict Rosie’s killer. One of the boys ran for help whilst another — a medical student — struggled in vain to keep her alive. She keeps you believing that first one, then another of the four was responsible for Rosie McDuff’s death.In August 2022 McDermid reported that the estate of Agatha Christie had threatened her publishers with legal action if they referred to McDermid as "the Queen of Crime", stating that the term was copyrighted by the Christie estate. If you still haven't absorbed the fact that Val McDermid is writing at the top of anyone's game, here's another chance to join the celebration.

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Lauren Lyle to star as Karen Pirie in ITV cold case murder drama, based on acclaimed author Val McDermid’s The Distant Echo, adapted by Emer Kenny.This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.