Out of Bounds

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McDermid concocts complex plots with plenty of twists and red herrings. At times the tension is palpable and there are genuine surprises . . . McDermid is a dab hand at creating enough plausibility to make her contributions to the genre intensely readable”― Glasgow Herald Macdonald, Stuart (25 October 2016). "Author Val McDermid gets married to long-term partner Jo Sharp". Daily Record. Bringing together grief, terrorism, murder, justice and forensics, the plot takes off when a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma and a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from 22 years ago. The answer to the cold case is “as twisted as the DNA helix itself”. A mystery rooted in a terrorist bombing two decades ago is also simultaneously investigated. Totaro, Paulo (21 August 2010). "Death becomes her". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 29 May 2019. DCI Karen Pirie and her colleague DC Jason ‘The Mint’ Murray make up Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, based in Edinburgh. When a teenage joyrider ends up in hospital, a routine DNA analysis finds a link to a twenty year old unsolved murder. Karen, still grieving the loss of her lover and colleague Phil, needs the distraction of work, but also can’t resist getting involved in a recent investigation when she discovers the dead man’s mother was also murdered years earlier. With her senior officer just waiting to catch her out, Karen doesn’t hesitate to bend, if not break the rules, and call on her network of clever friends, to get to the truth - but someone is just as determined to stop her...

Karen,grieving the death of her work and life partner,Phil,is sceptical of the coincidence of the two deaths and begins an investigation of her own. Scottish crime writer Val McDermid’s 30th novel, is a suspenseful thriller called Out of Bounds, with Little, Brown – AVAILABLE NOW! McDermid, Val (5 April 2016). "Scotland is now a place where you can be glad to be gay". The Guardian.A massive thanks to Grove Atlantic and Netgalley for an ARC of this book! When I had put my request in to review, I was on tenterhooks waiting to see if it would be approved – when it was approved….well I think there may have been a *happy dance* …ok, there was! While not,strictly speaking,her responsibility,for some inexplicable reason, she cannot free herself from the reins of this particular case. Well, it's routine now.' Sergeant Torrance didn't sound like a man who thought that was a good use of Police Scotland's budget. That was part of the point. She had chosen to move to Edinburgh precisely because it was unfamiliar. Deciding to live here had felt like a project. Learning the city one street at a time might take her mind off the grief and the pain. Meanwhile Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another case, one that she has no business investigating. And as she pieces together decades-old evidence, Karen discovers the most dangerous kinds of secrets. Secrets that someone is willing to kill for . . .

This was a fantastic story,one that I was completely bewitched by. The writing was so endearingly crafted that,by story's end,I felt that I knew and would recognise Karen and Jason if I met them on the street! Meanwhile, Karen 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.Val McDermid ends Raith Rovers support over David Goodwillie deal". BBC News. 1 February 2022 . Retrieved 1 February 2022. Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid review – 'Austen for the Facebook age' ". the Guardian. 26 March 2014 . Retrieved 16 April 2022.