The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid - ISBN: 9780751551280
Paperback
Decades-old bones unlock Edinburgh’s past, revealing buried secrets and false identities.

The Skeleton Road

A chilling, nail-biting Karen Pirie thriller, now a major TV series

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    8 June 2015

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Summary

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, which is scheduled for renovation, Cold Case Squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. Her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751551280
ISBN-10:0751551287
Author:Val McDermid
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Sphere
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:8 June 2015
Weight:322g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 30mm
Series:Karen Pirie
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Critics Review

Val McDermid, what a diva of crime! … an acute and credible psychological thriller - Sunday Examiner on The Vanishing Point

As ever, McDermid’s gift for taking ordinary, everyday events and giving them a sinister twist, plus her keen observations of human nature, make for a truly gripping tale - Sunderland Echo on Cross and Burn

About The Author

Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven 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 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.

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