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Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
When remains are found in the pinnacle of a Victorian Gothic building in Edinburgh, Karen Pirie stumbles into a cold case linked to the Balkan Wars.
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A killer targets single women at weddings: “[An] intense plot…McDermid keeps each twist believable.” —The Washington Post
In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Psychologist Tony...
In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away—only to leave the victims’ bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Psychologist Tony...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling “Queen of Crime reigns again” when a profiler and an ex-cop investigate the suspicious deaths of women targeted by Internet trolls (Independent, UK).
From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her beloved series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former DCI Carol Jordan . . ....
From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her beloved series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former DCI Carol Jordan . . ....
5) 1979
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Scottish journalist is drawn into a world of corruption, terror, and murder in the new novel by “one of crime fiction’s most eminent writers” (Entertainment Weekly).
The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity
6) 1989
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become an editor, and as the Cold War and AIDS crisis deliver a nonstop tide of news, most of it bad, a story falls into her lap. And then there's a murder.
Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning,...
Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child." "So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold-case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn't hold much hope of unravelling the infamous enigma." "She's already investigating a case from the same year. At the height of the miner's strike, Mick...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stunning new cold case novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid about a car crash that opens up an unsolved murder from decades before 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...
10) Past Lying
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 7
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this superb new addition to Val McDermid's masterful crime series, DCI Karen Pirie returns in a propulsive thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet of a global pandemic
Britain's reigning "Queen of Crime" (The Scotsman), Val McDerm
11) Kick Back
Author
Series
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
“Kate Brannigan’s . . . a whirling dervish of tough toes and fine prose.”—The Washington Post
Kate Brannigan is investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long, she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery—and murder. Then a favor for a friend puts Kate’s own life in danger.
12) Dead Beat
Author
Series
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
“Kate Brannigan is a breath of fresh air.”—Publishers Weekly
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, who does for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago.
When Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing songwriter, a search that takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds, little does she realize that finding her is a prelude to murder.
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, who does for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago.
When Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing songwriter, a search that takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds, little does she realize that finding her is a prelude to murder.
13) Broken ground
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville's inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted...
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Bywater Books 1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In Trick of the Dark, forensic psychiatrist Charlotte Flint is in desperate need of a distraction after her testimony in a high-profile case comes under fire, threatening her career. Enter Dr. Corinna Newsam-an old professor of Charlotte's-who's convinced her son-in-law was murdered by her daughter's new lover.
17) Union Jack
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay's tenth-floor...
18) The Retribution
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
World-class crime writer Val McDermid has sold millions of copies of her books worldwide. In The Retribution, clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan face a terrifying reality: serial killer Jacko Vance has escaped imprisonment-and appears hellbent on revenge against those who put him behind bars. "Be very afraid as you meet a truly inventive serial killer. Val McDermid's 25th novel is stunningly good."-Times (UK)
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. . . . She' s the best we' ve got."— New York Times Book Review Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid' s work speaks for itself: her books have sold millions of copies worldwide, won numerous accolades, and attracted a devoted following of readers around the globe. Her latest, Cross and Burn , picks up where The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting...
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Abridged
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return in the award-winning series that is the basis for the ITV television show Wire in the Blood.
In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young