Broken ground
By: Val McDermid
Series: A Karen Pirie thriller -- [5]
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781408709368; 9781408709351; 9781408709375
Subjects: Murder; Police; Investigation; Fiction
Description: 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own ...