Silent Bones

A Karen Pirie Novel

De: Val Mcdermid

Narrado por: Cathleen McCarron

The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (The 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 asphalt—it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.

Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway. It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was worth killing over? Or was it revenge for murdering his girlfriend? Meanwhile, an allegation of murder has surfaced over the supposedly accidental death of a hotel manager. It may have links to another accident on a remote Highland road. It’s a series of puzzles that tests Karen and her team to their limits. And possibly beyond...

A darkly propulsive thriller of secrets hidden at the core of a Scottish Highlands town, Silent Bones reaffirms Val McDermid as a crime writer of inimitable power.

Realistic Relationships

Loved the ending and current affairs input also the realistic friction of the Police colleagues with each other was very entertaining

Banish the Banter

Overall, I enjoyed this book. Ms. McDermid is a very talented author who can weave together an interesting story. If she would have stuck to the story and lessened the repartee a bit, I would have enjoyed it more. This is a matter of taste because there are likely a lot of readers who love the back and forth. For me, there was simply too much of it and I found it distracting and annoying. Otherwise it was a great story.

Disappointed

Not the best writing by a favorite author. More fairy tale. Narrator’s high and whispery voice sounded like she was reading a children’s book. Characters sounded childish and false. Contrived comes to mind. Meandering story line and plot. Hopefully the author will have more substance and a better narrator for the next book.

very contrived plot

read all her books this one first to disappoint. plot was so contrived and ending even more so
even the required "Trump Bashing" was so predictable. in fact everything in the book was predictable.
Sounded like a cabal of the "Scotsman" opinion writers co-operated with the author