Still Life
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780751582260
- Type
- novel
About this book
Number 6 in the Karen Pirie series, Still Life was released in 2020 at 448 pages, written by Val McDermid and continuing Karen's promotions, setbacks, and vindications within Police Scotland as the series builds toward its most recent entries.
Key facts about Still Life
Still Life is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2020. It runs to 448 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Still Life. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751582260 to find the main one.
Still Life is book 6 of 8 in the Karen Pirie series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Distant Echo (2003). Silent Bones is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 October 2025.
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
Still Life is book 6 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows Broken Ground. It is followed by 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 9780751582260
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802157447
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802157454