The Skeleton Road: A Karen Pirie Novel

By Val McDermid

Book Overview

An Edinburgh detective encounters skeletal remains that may be connected to the brutal Balkan Wars of the 1990s in this "tightly paced mystery" (Los Angeles Times).

In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. Who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse's identity. And when it turns out the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it.

"McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel."-Associated Press

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802124216
• ISBN13: 9780802124210
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Condition of book not as described

The condition of this book was described as in like new condition. The condition was poor. Bent pages and torn edges. Definitely not what I would describe as new.