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Broken Ground

Karen Pirie Novels #5 / 9
by Val McDermid
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie Novels #5) by Val McDermid
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Alice Somerville's inheritance lies six feet under in a Highland peat bog - a pair of valuable vintage motorbikes buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally organises their recovery, she finds an unwelcome surprise -a body with a pair of bullet holes . . . and Nike trainers. DCI Karen Pirie of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems.

Meanwhile an overheard conversation in a cafe draws Karen to the heart of a murder she thought she'd already prevented.

As Karen gets closer to the several truths, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is.

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Release date: August 23, 2018

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Val McDermid

Val McDermid

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over eighteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

Karen Pirie Novels

Karen Pirie Novels consists of eight books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Distant Echo (Karen Pirie Novels #1)
Unrated
A Darker Domain: Detective Karen Pirie's Scottish Cold Case Thriller of Unsolved 1980s Mysteries (Karen Pirie Novels #2)
Unrated
The Skeleton Road (Karen Pirie Novels #3)
Unrated
Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie Novels #4)
Unrated
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie Novels #5)
Unrated
Still Life: A Karen Pirie Novel (Karen Pirie Novels #6)
Unrated
Past Lying: A Karen Pirie Novel (Karen Pirie Novels #7)
Unrated
Silent Bones (Karen Pirie Novels #8)
Unrated
Karen Pirie Novels Book 9 (Karen Pirie Novels #9)
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