The Distant Echo (Paperback)

from cathyskye

Protagonist: Alex Gilbey Setting: St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland in 1978 and the present day Standalone First Line: "He always liked the cemetery at dawn." In 1978, young Rosie Duff's body was found in a remote corner of a cemetery in St. Andrews, Scotland by four drunken college students. A...

from eleanor_eader

I think McDermid achieves more with her one-off characters in this book than some writers of crime fiction manage over the course of a detective's serialised career. Other than the 'Wire in the Blood' series, this is my first Val McDermid book; not having had any of her stand-alone novels individ...

from maneekuhi

Val McDermid has written four series and six novels. Her best known series is Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, with the first story, "The Mermaids Singing", written in 1995 and the tenth written in 2017 "Insidious Intent". "Distant Echo" (DE), 450 pages, is the first in the Scot police detective Karen...

from bhabeck

Four friends are returning home after a night of revelry. Taking a shortcut through the local cemetery, they discover a new-dead woman. As three remain to comfort and try to help the woman, the fourth races off to get help from the local police. This sets into motion a series of events that will ...

from Carol420

[The Distant Echo] by Val McDermid Karen Pirie series Book #1 4 stars From The Book: It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey...