Karen Pirie novels
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3.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"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,...
6. Still life
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Cold case detective Karen Pirie ... finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem ... When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch--a body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation....
7. Past lying
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again. At the center of it, a novel: two crime novelists...