Silent Bones (Paperback)

Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a  motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.

Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who’d been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he’s reappeared, buried under the motorway.

It’s the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit. What was Nimmo investigating that was worth killing over? Or was it revenge for murdering his girlfriend? Meanwhile, an allegation of murder has surfaced over the supposedly accidental death of a hotel manager. It may have links to another accident on a remote Highland road. It’s a series of puzzles that tests Karen and her team to their limits. And possibly beyond . . .

A darkly propulsive thriller of secrets hidden at the core of a Scottish Highlands town, Silent Bones reaffirms Val McDermid as a crime writer of inimitable power.

General

Imprint:	Sphere
Series:	Karen Pirie, 8
Release date:	17 November 2025
Authors:	Val McDermid
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-1-4087-3403-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General Books > Promotion > Pre-Orders > Fiction Books > Promotion > Unwrap Joy Promotions > Orange is the New Black > Books
LSN:	1-4087-3403-6
Barcode:	9781408734032

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