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Out of Bounds

(2016)
(The fourth book in the Karen Pirie series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2017 McIlvanney Prize (nominee)
2017 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist)

Forensic evidence leads to places a Scottish cop never expected in “a thriller as steely and superlative as its heroine” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself.

Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems.

From a Diamond Dagger Award-winning author,
Out of Bounds is a riveting cold case novel starring detective Karen Pirie, who’s been described by the Associated Press as “a formidable character worthy of her own series.”

“I would like to see a great deal more of DCI Pirie.” —
Irish Times


Genre: Mystery

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