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Broken ground / Val McDermid.
Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground reaffirms Val McDermid's place as one of the best crime writers of her generation.
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- ISBN: 9780802146939
- ISBN: 0802146937
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.
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| Subject: | Women detectives > Fiction. Scotland > Fiction. Women detectives. Scotland. |
| Genre: | Fiction. Mystery fiction. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 October #2
*Starred Review* What is left to be said in praise of Val McDermid? After 32 novels, she is a master of her craft and has earned her place in the exclusive group of crime writers who have been awarded the UK's Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Her style has been described as "muscular," her characters as "brawny," and her dialect "beefy." These qualities abound in this fourth entry in the DI Karen Pirie series (after Out of Bounds, 2016). Pirie, who heads the cold-cases unit in urban Fife, Scotland, finds plenty of use for the wellies and cagoule (raincoat) that she keeps in the boot of her car when she ends up on a Highland peat bog, where a body wearing 1995 Nikes has been unearthed by treasure hunters looking for WWII loot. While fending off her superior's attempts to sabotage her work, she is also investigating a series of vicious rapes that occurred in the late eighties and has been drawn into a peculiar domestic stabbing. McDermid moves the reader deftly back and forth in time as her dab hand allows the indomitable Pirie to "bring the dead home." Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews.
