Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational Stella's new home

Stella's new home

with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck

Kathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices

and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had

Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational Stella's new homeThe truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiance when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the