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Silent Bones

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23rd October 2025

Price: £22

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781408734025

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THE POWERFUL NEW THRILLER IN THE KAREN PIRIE SERIES, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES



‘Beautifully structured, witty and twisty’
ANN CLEEVES
‘A perfect crime novel’ KATE MOSSE
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The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . .

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancée when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like murder. But what did Tom Jamieson’s book club have to do with his demise – and what will they do to keep their secrets?

Karen and her team begin to untangle a web of lies, one which connects their murder cases with Scotland’s rich and powerful. They will be tested to their limits – and possibly beyond . . .
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PRAISE FOR VAL MCDERMID



‘The Queen of Crime shows no sign of abdicating’
MICK HERRON

‘No one does it better than Val McDermid’ CHRIS WHITAKER

‘Delivers on every level’ MARIAN KEYES

‘McDermid plots her novels in masterly style’ SCOTSMAN

‘McDermid remains unrivalled’ OBSERVER

Reviews

KATE MOSSE
Silent Bones is brilliant - really intricate, gripping and asking some tough questions; a perfect crime novel
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Praise for Val McDermid
Peter James
A supremo of the genre at the height of her powers . . . An unmissable new series
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Praise for Val McDermid
David Baldacci
A tour-de-force . . . The Queen of Crime has delivered another masterpiece
ANN CLEEVES
A beautifully structured, witty and twisty novel with the friendship between the magnificent Karen Pirie and her team at its heart
Guardian
McDermid is at her considerable best here