From internationally bestselling author Val Mcdermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem.
Tightly plotted and intensely gripping, Still Life is Val Mcdermid at her best, and new and longtime readers alike will delight in the latest addition to this superior series..
Meanwhile, the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is being released from prison, reopening old wounds just as she was getting back on her feet.
Needless to say, Karen has her plate full.
Meanwhile, a traffic crash leads to the discovery of a skeleton in a suburban garage.
She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web--including a historic disappearance, art forgery, and secret identities--that seems to orbit around a painting copyist who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney.
When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland\'s Firth of Forth, Karen is called into investigate.
From internationally bestselling author Val Mcdermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem
