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The distant echo

Val McDermid

2003404 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003St. Martin's Minotaur · 404 pages · ENGISBN 9780312994839
  • 2003St. Martin's Minotaur · 404 pages · ENGISBN 9780312301996
  • 2003HarperCollins · 482 pages · ENGISBN 9780006393054
  • 2004HarperCollins Publishers · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9780007142842
  • 2006561 pages · ENGISBN 9780007825530
  • 2009HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780007327652
  • 2011HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780007905911
  • 2004Minotaur · 486 pagesISBN 9781250093158

From McDermid's webpage: "Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they’re examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has their own idea of how justice should be done. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire. Soon after, a second is killed in what looks like a burglary gone sour. But Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. He has to find out who it is before he becomes the next victim. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago."

How it feels

AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSingle lead

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