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Karen Pirie Book 1: The Distant Echo

AuthorVal Mcdermid

NarratorTom Cotcher

SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 1

Duration14h 12m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, LGBTQ+ Literature

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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On a freezing morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in a cemetery. The only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. 25 years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice...

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