02847cam a2200637 4500 2674235545 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802192141 0802192149 B00JLQ4OHE Amazon af522c07-ad45-4a45-969a-4e5812a1113a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2159449 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McDermid, Val. The Skeleton Road [Libby eBook]. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. <div>mysteries. Investigators. International. balkans</div>. Edinburgh . hardboiled. Yugoslavia. detectives. procedural. cold cases. Thrillers. Scotland. politics. Forensic. Scottish. homicide. British. murder . remains. novels. police. Female. bones. crime. edgy. dark. War. An Edinburgh detective encounters skeletal remains that may be connected to the brutal Balkan Wars of the 1990s in this "tightly paced mystery" (Los Angeles Times). In the center of historic Edinburgh, Scotland, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. Who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse's identity. And when it turns out the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, Karen will need to dig deeper than she ever imagined into the tragic history of the Balkans: to war crimes and their consequences, and ultimately to the notion of what justice is and who serves it. "McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel."—Associated Press. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/skeleton-road-af522c?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/skeleton-road-af522c?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID