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This was a great mystery - loved the main character so much I‘ve requested the first book in the series. Happy to have found a new series to get into thanks to @kspenmoll and #auldlangspine

Of course all my library holds for #auldlangspine came in at the same time. In the middle of both of these and enjoying both of them. @kspenmoll @monalyisha

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Another great detective solving mystery! With another great, sassy female detective.
4/7 in this series.

Karen Pirie Book #4 #serieslove2023
A car crash victim is linked to a cold case that Karen is pursuing. Another case,out of Karen‘s purview,intrigues her whose roots are in a 20 yr old terrorist bombing. So she pursues that case as well. She is a complex character.Along with these cases to contend with, Karen is grieving the violent death of her partner& love.she tries to assuage her grief with late night city walks.Highly recommend this series.

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Continuing with the top two books #sundaybuddyread #nunlit
Continuing to listen to Out of Bounds; Finished Angel of Death last night.

Going to bed soon, so this is my #20in4 #readathon results.
~Read 50 pages of Adrienne Rich to finish the biography
~Started & finished Death of a Lady
~Finished the last few chs.of The Raven Song
~Finished listening to Hidden in Snow
~Started Out of Bounds last night.

i certainly read more than 20 hours this time around!

The thing I enjoy most about Val‘s books is the strong characters and their intricate relationships.
That combined with the cold case aspect of the Karen Pirie novels make them my favorite of all the series.

Last weekend I was busy taking dtr to uni so this, 4th in the Karen pirie series was an easy read. Karen is a great character, who as Head of the historic cases unit finds herself drawn into an investigation of an old murder after a car crash unearths some interesting dna, while another crime leads into battles with her bosses and some influential people. A good read.

I want Karen Pirie for my bestie

Fourth in her DCI Karen Pirie cold case series. As in the previous installment, here we have Karen engaged in one case yet obstinately poking her nose into another, much to the rage of her superior and the bewilderment of her sidekick, the lovably dim Jason "The Mint" Murray. I still have a preference for the tangled web and bloody mayhem of Hill and Jordan but this was a very satisfactory stand-in.

Not a fan then Val I take it? ;)

Fast and entertaining; Detective Inspector Karen Pirie heads up the cold case squad. Still recovering from the death of a colleague, she walks the streets at all hours. When a current case has seems to connect with her own, she can‘t and won‘t stop investigating. Excellent for a quick pick me up！

I borrowed this from my mum as an interim quick read between book club books and really enjoyed it. It‘s an expertly written crime thriller. The main character, Karen Pirie, is likeable (which I personally find important in this genre) and realistically flawed. McDermid has a real flair for dialogue and brings her characters to life by their actions not descriptions, which moves the story along and adds depth in a very accessible way. Fun read.

This really kept me guessing! So many twists and turns. I loved the clever use of minutiae, trivial details that provided brilliant links from one character to the next.

Yes, our circus here in the States has already made it into fiction.

I'd actually seen it advertised in a magazine a couple of months before I saw it on the shelves first couple of chapters had me hooked then it went slow towards the middle but then picked up again, overall good book

This was a great book. I liked seeing Edinburgh from a different perspective (although I did half-expect Rebus to show up in a cameo 😆). And much less creepy than McDermid's Tony Hill / Carol Jordan series.

This is the second mystery I've read this month that has made references to the British Air Accidents Investigations Branch (the other was Talking to the Dead, by Harry Bingham). Accident investigation is fascinating to me, so I enjoy the literary shout-outs 🤓

My Netgalley queue is Out of Bounds, so my #bookishresolutions are to finish AND review the #Netgalley titles. #readjanuary

Mystery binge this month