Inspector Karen Pirie (5 books in series)
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review 1: I like crime novels (as well as other books) involving cold cases or making sense of past events, so I enjoyed this one too. However, the ending was rather dissapointing in the sense that some ends were left dangling. Sure, after reading the last 2 pages you could more of less ga...
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review 1: a very twisted one this - in her true tradition! 25 years ago the daughter of the richest man in scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. but cat ended up dead and adam has just disappeared. a new clue is discovered in a deserted tuscan villa and di karen piri...
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review 1: This is the first Val McDermid book that I've read. The premise of this book is interesting, a 20-year old kidnapping/murder case that was recently (re)opened because an investigative journalist found a poster/painting that connects to the old crime. At the same time a mom on a m...
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review 1: I was a bit slower on the uptake with the murderer than I should have been, but I got there. The Balkan storyline interested me and brought back memories of reading coverage in the 90s, and the theme of revenge is one that never fails to fascinate. Overall though I went with thre...
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review 1: This book was for my mystery book club meeting. I thought the book started out really slow, even though there were 2 mysteries going on, both of them cold cases. One was centered around a father that walked out on his wife and daughter over 20 years ago, and the second one was ...