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Narrated by:
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Cathleen McCarron
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By:
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Val McDermid
About this listen
In this superb new addition to Val McDermid’s masterful crime series, DCI Karen Pirie returns in a propulsive thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against the disquiet of a global pandemic
Britain’s reigning “Queen of Crime” (The Scotsman), Val McDermid is the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of over thirty novels. The long-awaited seventh novel in the acclaimed series that has captivated audiences for twenty years, both on the page and now in the Edgar Award-nominated ITV/BritBox show, Past Lying is a full tilt novel of ego, retribution, deceit, and just how far one will go to settle the score.
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 facing off over a chessboard. But it quickly emerges that their real-life competition is drawing blood. What unspools is a twisted game of betrayal and revenge, and as Karen and her team attempt to disentangle fact from fiction, it becomes clear that their investigation is more complicated than they ever imagined.
A tense, atmospheric thriller, Past Lying reaffirms McDermid as one of the most talented crime writers of her generation.
©2023 Val McDermid (P)2024 Recorded BooksListeners also enjoyed...
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By: Stuart MacBride
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- 10-25-24
Multidimensional characters
The writing and characterization are as always with Val’s books, utterly captivating. As a reader/listener you are in Edinburgh and can almost feel the wind from the Forth. This is simply brilliant. The pace, the suspense keeps you reading/listening till the last word and I always feel bereft that I don’t know what happens to these “people” next. They are like friends that you want to meet up with over a brew and chat about anything and everything. Val is simply amazing.
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