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Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies.
She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award.
She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010.
In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award. She writes full time and divides her time between Cheshire and Edinburgh.
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I do love a Val McDermid book, and Silent Bones was no exception. The book thoroughly absorbed me in the two days immediately prior to Christmas 2025.
Silent Bones is well paced, featuring short punchy chapters as DCI Pirie, DS Murray and DS Mortimer juggle the demands of two cases. The plot is liberally sprinkled with insightful contemporary realism and Scottish vernacular, together with Val McDermid's signature dry wit coming to the fore in the dialogue between the central characters. Karen Pirie is a compelling and complex heroine, whose professional success seems destined not to be mirrored in her personal life.
I'd enthusiastically recommend Silent Bones to series devotees. I believe it could be read as a standalone or entry point to the series by those who haven't yet read the previous books, although there are very significant series-level character arcs and background plot lines that reward reading the series in publication order.
Thanks to the author, Queen of Crime Val McDermid, publisher Grove Atlantic | Atlantic Crime and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title.
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