Silent Bones
- Published
- 23 October 2025
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9781408734032
- Type
- novel
About this book
The eighth entry in the Karen Pirie series, Silent Bones was published on October 23, 2025 and is currently the newest book in the series, written by Val McDermid as Karen's long-running Historic Cases Unit career continues.
Key facts about Silent Bones
Val McDermid wrote Silent Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 23 October 2025. The book has 432 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781408734032 to find the main one.
Silent Bones is book 8 of 8 in the Karen Pirie series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Distant Echo (2003). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
Additionally, Val McDermid writes Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, This Door of the Seas is the latest published Val McDermid book on file, from 6 August 2026.
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer whose career spans nearly four decades and five distinct series, making her one of the most prolific and structurally ambitious authors working in British crime fiction. See every Val McDermid book in order.
Its place in Karen Pirie
Silent Bones is book 8 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows Past Lying. 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 9781408734032