Karen Pirie · Book 3
The Skeleton Road
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 423
- ISBN-13
- 9780751551280
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Skeleton Road, written by Val McDermid, is the third entry in the Karen Pirie series, released in 2014 at 423 pages, a 6-year gap after A Darker Domain, continuing the series' pattern of old crimes that don't stay buried.
Its place in Karen Pirie
The Skeleton Road is book 3 in the Karen Pirie series. It follows A Darker Domain. It is followed by Out of Bounds. 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 9780751551280
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802123091
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802124210