{"product_id":"still-life-the-heart-pounding-number-one-bestseller-from-the-queen-of-crime-the-heart-pounding-number-one-bestseller-that-will-have-you-gripped","title":"Still Life: The heart-pounding number one bestseller from the Queen of Crime: The heart-pounding number one bestseller that will have you gripped","description":"Product Description\n\nDon't miss the series that inspired the major ITV drama, Karen Pirie, starring Lauren Lyle - Still Life is the sixth Karen Pirie thriller\n\n\n\nRead Val McDermid's masterful new novel, 1989, now and pre-order the eagerly awaited New Karen Pirie Thriller, publishing October 2023\n\n'No one can tell a story like she can' Daily Express\n\n'The queen of psychological thrillers' Irish Independent\n____________\n\n'The bodies never stay buried forever . . .'\n\nOn a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets.\n\nBut Karen is already grappling with another case, one with even more questions and fewer answers. A skeleton has been discovered in an abandoned campervan and all clues point to a killer who never faced justice - a killer who is still out there.\n\nIn her search for the truth, Karen uncovers a network of lies that has gone unchallenged for years. But lies and secrets can turn deadly when someone is determined to keep them hidden for good . . .\n____________\n\n\n\nPraise for Val McDermid:\n\n'Brilliant . . . Sensational . . . Unforgettable' Guardian\n\n'Compulsively readable' Irish Times\n\n'As good a psychological thriller as it is possible to get' Sunday Express\n\n'It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go' Daily Mail\n\n'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review\n\n\nReview\n\nThe sense of McDermid's books getting entangled with real life is particularly powerful ― The Times\n\nStill Life shows that she is still at the height of her powers . . . deeply enjoyable, one of her best ― Scotsman\n\nAn elegant and richly satisfying read ― Daily Mail\n\nTremendous. An effortlessly gripping read ― The Observer\n\nHer most exhilarating, breath-taking thriller yet ― East Anglian Daily Times\n\nBook Description\n\nThe breathtaking new DCI Karen Pirie thriller from number one bestseller and queen of crime, Val McDermid. When a body is pulled from the sea, Karen must reopen a case from a decade before, drawing her into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets.\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\u003cp\u003eVal McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over seventeen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40161527038037,"sku":"9780751576948N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/87cff068-79da-4cbd-aa2e-3da1c2b99c49.jpg?v=1657629595","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/still-life-the-heart-pounding-number-one-bestseller-from-the-queen-of-crime-the-heart-pounding-number-one-bestseller-that-will-have-you-gripped","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}