A review by subatomic5583
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

2.0

A Karen Pirie book in name only.
I am being generous with two stars.
This is the first book I have ever read that was not even close to being as good as the movie/TV series.
The TV show was co-written by Val with Emer Kenny, and directed by Gareth Bryn, with Karen Pirie as the central driving force.
In the book she is a quite frankly useless bit part with nothing to offer
The only reason it's not one star is that I can only hope the next book actually develops Karen into the character I have seen on screen