The Distant Echo (Detective Karen Pirie, #1) (Karen Pirie, #1)

by Val McDermid

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The bestselling, award-winning author of "A Place of Execution" delivers her most stunning story yet--an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge
Four in the morning, mid-December, snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman.
Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed, and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. The only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later, police mount a cold-case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has his own idea of how justice should be done.
One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire. Soon after, a second is killed in what looks like a burglary gone sour. Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. He has to find out who it is before he becomes the next victim. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who killed Rosie all those years ago.
  • ISBN10 155927946X
  • ISBN13 9781559279468
  • Publish Date 1 October 2003 (first published 1 May 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 December 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Renaissance Audio
  • Edition Abridged edition
  • Format Audiobook
  • Language English