Karen Pirie · Book 4

Out of Bounds

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
432
ISBN-13
9780751561432
Type
novel

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Cover of Out of Bounds

About this book

The fourth entry in the Karen Pirie series, Out of Bounds was published in 2016 and spans 432 pages, written by Val McDermid as Karen's rank and standing within Police Scotland continue to shift across the series.

Its place in Karen Pirie

Out of Bounds is book 4 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows The Skeleton Road. It is followed by Broken Ground. 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…

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