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Out of Bounds (McDermid novel)

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Amongst all of this, Karen has to come to terms with Phil's death, worry about her young, naïve colleague who makes errors in judgment and procedure, whilst combatting the open dislike that her superior,
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and one of the passengers was Gabriel's mother. It was always believed that an incendiary device had caused the aircraft to crash and that the
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man, also leads to Karen unofficially opening a cold case on a 1994 aircraft crash. The aircraft contained 4 people, the pilot was an
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were responsible. As Karen digs deeper, she finds more and more and comes to believe that the terrorists were far from responsible.
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in the small hours. She cannot sleep as her lover and colleague, Phil Parhatka, was killed in the last outing in this series (
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In 2016, a group of joyriders crash their stolen vehicle and the driver ends up in intensive care. The
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in alleyways and under bridges gathered together to try to be a community, as since coming to
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Lees, has for her. She even finds the time and opportunity to help the refugees.
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when she disappeared from the group before being found dead the next morning.
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of the offender leads Pirie to an unsolved rape/murder of a hairdresser from
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in 1996. Tina McDonald was on a night out with some friends in
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Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie walks the streets of
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Index

Beacon Street Girls

Val McDermid
English
Detective fiction
Little, Brown
Scotland
ISBN
978-1-4087-0691-6
novel by Scottish
crime writer
Val McDermid
Leith
The Skeleton Road
Syrian refugees
Scotland
DNA
Partick
Glasgow
Kinross
MP
IRA
Assistant Chief Constable
Press and Journal
Keighley News
A Place of Execution
The Independent


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