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Broken ground

Val McDermid

20181 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2018
first published
  • 2018422 pages · ENGISBN 9781408709368
  • 2018Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic · 422 pages · ENGISBN 9780802129123
  • 2019Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780802147745
  • 2020Droemer HCISBN 9783426282236
  • 2019Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781664746022
  • 2019SphereISBN 9780751575453
  • 2021FLAMMARION · 512 pagesISBN 9782081504226
  • SphereISBN 9780751568257

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own.

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