Karen Pirie Novels: Out of Bounds: A Karen Pirie Novel (Hardcover)

from smik

Despite, the fact that this is quite a long novel, I managed to finished it within 24 hours of starting. It is a police procedural in which modern technology plays a considerable role: DNA testing, birth and adoption databases, mobile phone messaging, CCTV, organ transplants, just to note a few e...

from Diana_Long_Thomas

Book received from NetGalley I started this last night and enjoyed it so much I finished it today. This is the first book I have read by this author, but it won't be the last. I loved how three different crimes/problems were worked together to form one story that didn't make you wonder how they w...

from KateVane

Cold-case investigator DCI Karen Pirie is back and is now working from an office in Edinburgh. Out of Bounds features two cases, one which is officially Karen's and which is based in Glasgow area, and another which she can't help getting involved in which has national and even international eleme...

from Twink

Val McDermid is simply one of the best crime writers around. I have loved every book she's written. She has a number of series. Out of Bounds is the fourth novel featuring Inspector Karen Pirie. But you could absolutely read this as a stand alone. Pirie is working cold cases. When a DNA sample fr...

from pgchuis

I'm glad I persisted with this series, as this instalment was excellent. The cold cases Karen investigates are not unconvincingly linked by the end (thankfully), and the resolution to each of them was realistic. I do enjoy her encounters with the Macaroon.