Dive into a gripping mystery with Past Lying, the latest crime thriller by Val McDermid. This novel features DCI Karen Pirie in a chilling case set in Edinburgh, from the renowned British author.
Karen Pirie returns in a masterful thriller by the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Val McDermid. Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie.
Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep. The manuscript seems to be the key to unlocking what happened to Lara Hardie, but there's a problem: the author died before he finished it.
As Karen digs deeper, she uncovers a spiralling game of betrayal and revenge, where lies are indistinguishable from the truth and with more than one unexpected twist.
Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award.