The skeleton road
(2014)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/MCDERMID,V

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/MCDERMID,V Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2014]
DESCRIPTION

406 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780802123091, 0802123090
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse's identity. And when it turns out that the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it"--