Silent Bones: A Karen Pirie Novel

“Powerful, moving and wise – Val McDermid’s books are always enthralling.”—Harlan Coben

“A beautifully structured, witty and twisty novel.”—Ann Cleeves

The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there?

Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and...