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A review by sandraleivesley
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
5.0
This is an excellent police procedural set in Fife when in 1978 the body of a young woman is found by four young men, Ziggy, Gilly, Weird and Mondo, who soon become suspects but the case was never solved. Twenty five years later the cold case is reopened and we found out what happened to the four men and how being suspects affected them.
The book sucked me in straight away, though the pace throughout is slow and steady and quite tense at times. There were enough red herrings to confuse me and I didn't guess who the killer was until the last minute. It's quite a long book (the audio version is more than 14 hours long) but kept my attention all the way through. Fife is perfectly described so that even though I've never been there it felt very familiar.
This is the first in the Karen Pirie series, but Karen appears very little in this book, so I look forward to learning more about her in future books.
Tom Cotcher did a good job with the narration though I had to listen at a slower speed than I usually do because of his accent.
The book sucked me in straight away, though the pace throughout is slow and steady and quite tense at times. There were enough red herrings to confuse me and I didn't guess who the killer was until the last minute. It's quite a long book (the audio version is more than 14 hours long) but kept my attention all the way through. Fife is perfectly described so that even though I've never been there it felt very familiar.
This is the first in the Karen Pirie series, but Karen appears very little in this book, so I look forward to learning more about her in future books.
Tom Cotcher did a good job with the narration though I had to listen at a slower speed than I usually do because of his accent.