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  • Broken Ground

  • Karen Pirie, Book 5
  • By: Val McDermid
  • Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
  • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,539 ratings)

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Broken Ground

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
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Summary

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....

©2018 Val McDermid (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

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These books just get better

I am thoroughly enjoying this series of books. I am even starting to come to terms with Karen’s unconventional and disrespectful attitude to her bosses. She gets the results even if she does ride rough shot over people at times. I’m excited as to where this new aspect of her life might be going.

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Great

Great story, brilliant narration. Even the odd laugh out loud moment. Best book I have listened to this year. Can't wait for the next installment.

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Gripping from beginning to end

Loved it. Couldn't stop reading it. Fabulous plot. So well read. a triumph again Ms McDermitt. more!

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Well worth the read. Val Madrid at her best.

this story set mainly in Edinburgh but with links to the beauty of Wester Ross? Our intrepid detectives take a day our two out of the metropolis to begin an investigation into a 35 year-old murder.

The unknown and therefore unsolved murder victim sets the test of investigation a hard task. The 'tecs face more opposition to their Historic Case Investigation in the unlikely guise of senior ranks.

Read and be enthralled. Thank you Val for this belter.

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Excellent story from the Queen of Crime!

Another great story featuring DCI Karen Pirie and the historic cases unit. Well worth a read.

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V enjoyable

I really enjoyed this Karen Pirie story, good plotting ( as always) and I enjoyed the Karen/ Hamish side story. Well read too - not always the case.

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Another superb listen

I have so loved this very book in this series but alarmed there doesn’t seem to be any more .. I really hope Val writes some more as it really is an excellent listen . Fabulous storyline and narration

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Best Karen Pirie to date

Very impressed, great story, engaging narrator
Think Karen Pirie is Vals best detective
Definitely recommended

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Gripping

I was hooked right from the first. It made me antisocial, every time someone disturbed my listening I went to another room!

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CHAPTER BLEED

I found the story excellent however I prefer to listen by chapter and unusually this book seemed to end chapter in the middle of the last sentence of the chapter most off putting

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