Karen Pirie · Book 2
A Darker Domain
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 391
- ISBN-13
- 9780007243297
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Darker Domain, written by Val McDermid, is the second entry in the Karen Pirie series, published in 2008, a 5-year gap after The Distant Echo. It is the shortest book in the series and continues Karen's growth within Police Scotland's cold-case unit.
Its place in Karen Pirie
A Darker Domain is book 2 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows The Distant Echo. It is followed by The Skeleton Road. See the full Karen Pirie reading order.
Karen Pirie starts the series as a detective constable assigned to Scotland's Historic Cases Unit -- a backwater posting for cold cases nobody expects to be solved -- and grows across eight books into one of British crime fiction's most durable working-class investigators, promoted, sidelined, reinstated, and repeatedly proven right by colleagues who underestimate her. The opening novel, The Distant Echo (2003), reopens a decades-old student murder in St Andrews; from there the series keeps returning to the same…
Editions
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007243303
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