Karen Pirie · Book 8
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.
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