Silent Bones (Karen Pirie Novels)

Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie leads the Historic Cases Unit and does an exemplary job in closing cold cases & providing closure to the families of murder victims. However, the top brass is attempting to relocate her unit and Karen decides to go all in on her work by asking her boss to give her one year to show significant results. Meanwhile, two new cases have wound up in her unit’s purview: the murder of a long missing investigative journalist and the death of a hotel manager. Both cases come with complications as the death of the hotel manager was initially declared an accident while the investigative reporter had been a suspect in his fiancee’s murder at the time of his death. The investigations will lead Pirie and her team into a web of murder and intrigue that they didn’t quite expect.

Silent Bones is the latest impressive crime novel from the prolific and eminently talented Val McDermid (“Past Lying”, 2023). McDermid’s eighth book in the Karen Pirie series grabs the reader’s attention from the start and continues that captivating path as Pirie and her officers dive deeper into the cases that hold explosive implications.