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Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And...
4) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Zoe Meadows is on a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers, for a weekend of music and camping. When some of the revelers fall ill, many point to food poisoning. But after the festival ends and attendees scatter across England,...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But 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,...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace -- until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation. Fife, 1984. At the height of the politically charged national miners' strike, Mick Prentice abandons his family to join the strikebreakers down south. Labelled a...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Criminal psychologist Fiona Cameron is trained to look for patterns in murders. Therefore, when two writers of thrillers are murdered, one in Scotland and one in Ireland, she grows worried about her lover, Kit Martin, a British crime novelist. While trying to protect Kit, Fiona must carry on with her work as a psychology professor and a consultant with the Spanish authorities investigating a series of murders in Toledo.
8) Past lying
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie tackles two cases that draw her into the world of imposters, identity theft, and art forgery. Once involves the death of a man whose brother was a Scottish government official. The other case involves a skeleton found in a camper van.
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