by Val McDermid
For some reason, this book is listed as the first of the "Karen Pirie" series. I'd read one further along the line (#5, I think it was) and figured to try to begin at the beginning. Karen Pirie has only a couple of cameo appearances in this book. Weird. So, we begin in 1978. Four extremely inebriate...
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing -- though with decidedly fewer new reads than I'd origianlly been planning -- my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). ...
"He always liked the cemetery at dawn. Not because daybreak offered any promise of a fresh beginning, but because it was too early for there to be anyone else around. Even in the dead of winter, when the pale light was so late in coming, he could guarantee solitude. No prying eyes to wonder who he w...
bookshelves: spring-2011, mystery-thriller, britain-scotland Read from March 24 to 27, 2011 * blurb - 25 years on, police review the unsolved murder of a young woman in the snow - but is the killing over? Stars Jimmy Chisholm.
I've given one of Val McDermid's books another try , but once more it didn't happen for me. I think I'm off Val McDermid for good...Predictable from beginning to end. Without giving away any spoilers, I think it's safe to say that the culprit is quite obvious... What I really don't like about McDerm...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v9qsr/Val_McDermid_The_Distant_Echo/blurb - 25 years on, police review the unsolved murder of a young woman in the snow - but is the killing over? Stars Jimmy Chisholm.
This book was awesome and def. kept me on my toes. It was one that I def. had wrong re: who and why the killing took place. Just love Val McDermid!
I love when murder mysteries deal with crimes that happened in the past of the characters. I don't know why, I just do. This is a great one.
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