The Skeleton Road (Karen Pirie Book 3)

Book overview Description Editorial Reviews An Edinburgh detective encounters skeletal remains that may be connected to the brutal Balkan Wars of the 1990s in this “tightly paced mystery” (Los Angeles Times).In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building.

They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years.

Who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse’s identity.

And when it turns out the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it.“McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel.”—Associated Press Read more About the Author VAL McDERMID is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels.

She has won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; her novels have been selected as New York Times Notable Books and have been Edgar Award finalists.

She was the 2010 recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Crime Writing.

More than 10 million copies of her books have been sold around the world.

She lives in the north of England.

Visit her website at www.valmcdermid.com.