Still Life, Val McDermid
Still Life, Val McDermid
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Still Life

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Cathleen McCarron

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery Val McDermid is the award-winning, international bestselling author of more than thirty novels and has been hailed as Britain’s Queen of Crime. In Still Life, McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, Karen is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—including a historic disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities—that seems to orbit around a painting copyist who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney. Meanwhile, a traffic crash leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a suburban garage. Needless to say, Karen has her plate full. Meanwhile, the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is being released from prison, reopening old wounds just as she was getting back on her feet. Tightly plotted and intensely gripping, Still Life is Val McDermid at her best, and new and longtime readers alike will delight in the latest addition to this superior series.

About Val Mcdermid

Val McDermid is the author of many crime novels and has created the notable characters Lindsay Gordon, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill. Her novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 16 million copies. Visit her online at ValMcDermid.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 26, 2024

This review was first posted on Mystery and Suspense. Check it out for features, interviews, and reviews. [URL not allowed] 3.5 stars In this sixth book in the Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie series, the police investigate two cold cases. The book works fine as a standalon......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on August 13, 2020

So this is not only my first read in this series, its my first read by Val McDermid! Having finished it Im annoyed with myself that its taken me this long to discover her work. The spiel: When a body is pulled from the sea by some fishermen it is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime sus......more

Goodreads review by Kasa on August 27, 2020

Any time a new book by Val McDermid appears, there is reason to rejoice, but this time she delivers an astounding feat: welcome to the first thriller written during Covid-19 Lockdown incorporating current events seamlessly into the plotline. She is a magician in her tight plotting, extraordinary set......more

Goodreads review by Gary on July 07, 2020

This is the 6th book in the Karen Pirie series by author Val McDermid. DCI Karen Pirie is called on to revisit one of her old cases when a fishermen pulls a body from the sea. The dead man was the prime suspect in an old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Kar......more