Broken Ground

Its place in Karen Pirie

Broken Ground is book 5 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows Out of Bounds. It is followed by Still Life. 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…