The Skeleton Road: A Karen Pirie Novel (Karen Pirie, #3) (Inspector Karen Pirie Mysteries, #3) (Books That Changed the World)

by Val McDermid

"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse's identity. And when it turns out that the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it"--

• ISBN10: 0802123090
• ISBN13: 9780802123091
• Publish Date: 2 December 2014 (first published 11 September 2014)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 April 2021
• Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[dpfaef]

Started reading this and thought that it sounded familiar, so I checked around and found that I had downloaded this from Audible in December 2014. I must have listened to it and never recorded it. This is one of the reasons I use Goodreads so I don't read the same books over and over. Marking this read and not writing a review.