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Broken ground / Val McDermid.

McDermid, Val, (author.).

Summary:

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however--a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the center of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802129123 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 422 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.

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Originally published: Great Britain : Little, Brown, 2018.

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Subject: Women detectives > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    When a would-be heiress uncovers a murdered body rather than her hidden inheritance in a Highland peat bog, DCI Pirie unravels a case where nothing is what it seems.
  • Baker & Taylor
    When a would-be heiress uncovers a murdered body, rather than her hidden inheritance, in a Highland peat bog, DCI Pirie unravels a case where nothing is what it seems. By the award-winning author of Out of Bounds.
  • Perseus Publishing

    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 surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems. And as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is.

    An engrossing, twisty thriller, Broken Ground reaffirms Val McDermid’s place as one of the best crime writers of her generation.

  • Perseus Publishing
    From internationally bestselling crime author Val McDermid comes a shocking new Karen Pirie novel about a mysterious corpse and a fight for the truth
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