Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational But power has its price

But power has its price

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Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational But power has its priceThe truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiance when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the