Police thriller interweaves Scottish dramas
Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie has always been a workaholic. But now immersion in her work doesn't just give her life structure - it also has become a kind of comfort that allows her to deal with grief in Out of Bounds, Val McDermid's latest exciting novel about this Scottish police detective.
Pirie, now head of Police Scotland's small Historic Cases Unit in Edinburgh, tackles a decades-old murder after 17-year-old Ross Garvie goes on a high-speed ride with three of his friends. A horrific crash results in the death of the three drunken teens and leaves Garvie in a coma.
Karen and her partner, Detective Constable Jason Murray, become involved when Garvie's DNA is shown to be a familial match to that of a Glasgow hairdresser whose rape and murder has gone unsolved for years. But maneuvering the Scottish legal system to track down Garvie's male relatives is fraught with complications.
