Still life

Summary: "The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation. At the same time, a woman in the wealthy enclave of Perth is clearing out her sister's home after a fatal road accident and finds a mysterious camper van in the garage containing a skeletonized body. But who is it? And how long has it been there? The two cases will draw Karen into the world of imposters, identity theft, and art forgery"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780802157447
ISBN: 0802157440
Physical Description: print
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

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General Note:

"First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Little, Brown"--Title page verso.

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Women detectives Scotland Edinburgh Fiction
Murder Investigation Fiction
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction
Missing persons Fiction
Art forgers Fiction
Impostors and imposture Fiction
Edinburgh (Scotland) Fiction
Scotland Fiction
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FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery
Art forgers
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Impostors and imposture
Missing persons
Murder Investigation
Women detectives
Scotland
Scotland Edinburgh

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