Karen Pirie · Book 1
The Distant Echo
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 482
- ISBN-13
- 9780006393054
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Distant Echo, written by Val McDermid, opens the Karen Pirie series in 2003 as the longest book in the series at 482 pages. It introduces Karen as a detective constable in Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, reopening a decades-old student murder in St Andrews that no one expects to be solved.
Its place in Karen Pirie
The Distant Echo is book 1 in the Karen Pirie series. It is followed by A Darker Domain. 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 9780006393054
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006393061
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