Karen Pirie · Book 7
Past Lying
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780802161499
- Type
- novel
About this book
Number 7 in the Karen Pirie series, Past Lying was published in 2023, a 3-year gap after Still Life, running 464 pages and continuing Val McDermid's pattern of decades-old crimes resurfacing to test Karen's standing among colleagues who underestimate her.
Its place in Karen Pirie
Past Lying is book 7 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows Still Life. It is followed by Silent Bones. 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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802161499
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408729090