andrew61 's review for:

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
4.0

This was a rattling good read as Val mcdermid introduces us to a cold case squad which includes D.C. Karen pirie ,albeit in a minor role in this book.
Four drunk St Andrews university students on a snowy December night in 1978 stumble across a young woman dying of a stab wound and fall immediately under suspicion of her murder. 25 yrs later the cold case squad investigates and we learn how the events have changed theirs and others lives.
A really compelling plot and a book that I couldn't put down.