The Distant Echo: Book 1 (Detective Karen Pirie)

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The police advisers said that detective chief inspectors simply wouldn’t do most of the stuff they do on TV,” says Kenny. “The preliminary interviews and so on. They’d leave it to someone like Karen.”

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Cunningly plotted...McDermid administers the venom drop by drop...Individually the characters are sensitively drawn. Collectively, they present the inscrutable face of closed-off communities so terrified of change they would kill for peace.” — New York Times Book Review More visceral is the mistrust she establishes between the four friends, the police and the murdered girl’s family. She keeps you believing that first one, then another of the four was responsible for Rosie McDuff’s death.Totaro, Paulo (21 August 2010). "Death becomes her". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 29 May 2019. The Mermaids Singing (1995) (Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 1995) [1]

Val McDermid is one prolific crime writer. Probably best noted for her Wire in the Blood mystery series, she's also written the Lindsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan series. The Distant Echo is the first book in another of her series, this one featuring Scottish police inspector Karen Pirie. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid review – 'Austen for the Facebook age' ". the Guardian. 26 March 2014 . Retrieved 16 April 2022. Even in this book, there were a couple of characters that I did not like at different times, but as the story progressed, the characters actually developed and changed my appreciation for them. No stylised, two dimensional characters here! Due to the plot of the source novel, the female-led team faced an issue that has become controversial in male-made television: a young woman as a victim of violence.I am unsure why it is called a Karen Pirie book because she has only the tiniest of parts in the book, and really it was a poor first impression as I thought she was not particularly intelligent, likeable, or interesting. Certainly, I have no interest in learning any more about here in any more books. a b Wroe, Nicholas (12 August 2011). "Val McDermid: a life in writing". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 May 2019. McDermid, Val (5 April 2016). "Scotland is now a place where you can be glad to be gay". The Guardian.

Twenty-five years later, police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has his own idea of justice. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire and soon after, a second is killed. Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago. Resistance: A Graphic Novel (2021), illustrated by Kathryn Briggs ( Profile Books/ Wellcome Collection, London, ISBN 978-1-78816-3552) I will not go into the details of the plot other than to say that this is a story of a murder investigation that takes place in St. Andrews/Fife (East of Scotland) and continues to haunt the people involved for more than 20 years. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will take the lead role of Karen Pirie in a new ITV drama series from the producers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, World Productions.If you still haven't absorbed the fact that Val McDermid is writing at the top of anyone's game, here's another chance to join the celebration...her clean, crisp writing, especially about crime science, might just remind you of the early books of P.D. James.”— Chicago Tribune He always liked the cemetery at dawn. Not because daybreak offered any promise of a fresh beginning, but because it was too early for there to be anyone else around. Even in the dead of winter, when the pale light was so late in coming, he could guarantee solitude. No prying eyes to wonder who he was and why he was there, head bowed before that one particular grave. No nosy parkers to question his right to be there." A journalist asked if I’d been cast because I was short,” says Lyle. “And, er, no! But, visually, it’s super-useful. When these huge men are shouting at Karen, in every sense belittling her, it does give me something to play with, always having to look up at them.”