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4 Garçons dans la Nuit by Val McDermid
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4 Garçons dans la Nuit (original 2003; edition 2005)

by Val McDermid

Series: Karen Pirie (1)

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The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart... Some things just won't let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow. On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim - find out who really killed Rosie all those years ago...… (more)
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Title:4 Garçons dans la Nuit
Authors:Val McDermid
Info:Editions Du Masque (2005), Fournitures diverses
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The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (2003)

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• Well painted characters that seem like real people.
• Val has a decent vocabulary, plenty of lookups needed.
• A nice build up of tension, causing you to will things to happen.
• I had to work at keeping track of who was who.
The Players:
• "Ziggy" Sigmund Malkiewicz (medical student, gay, atheist),
• "Gilly" Alex Gilbey,
• "Mondo" Davey Kerr,
• "Weird" Tom Mackie (Maths, Christian)
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  GeoffSC | Aug 20, 2023 |
On a freezing night in Fife 4 drunken students stumble on a body of a girl who has been stabbed and raped. They are the only suspects.
25 years later the police reopen the investigation as a cold case and two of the 4 suspects are suspiciously murdered.
An extremely well written thriller with many sub plots. Val gives us little clues to work out the murderer instead of suddenly being introduced a new character in the last few chapters. ( )
  BryceV | Aug 16, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Required online reviews to recall, but at least now I can. A who-done-it, in which a cold case is opened 20 years later with the aid of DNA research. Four college students lives affected in the meantime." ( )
  MGADMJK | Jul 19, 2023 |
Val McDermid has a new series. Ok new for me. The Tony Hills books were great, and now with this first book in the Karen Pirie series Val McDermid just keeps getting better.
This time out 4 friends walking home at 3 in the morning stumble across a dead girl on the side of a hill.
Immediately they are treated like suspects.
Half the book takes place around the time of the murder and half takes place 25 years later.
What makes this author so good- up there with Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke is her story telling ability.
For a lot of this book they is no action going on. B I t the weaving together the 4 friends and everyone else involved, made this book fly, and on kindle it was over 500 pages.
If you like murder mysteries and haven’t read Val McDermid, try one of her books. There isn’t too much Scottish slang. And with Google you can look anything up. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
A good whodunit, constantly guessing the killer of Rose throughout the book and also in the last half of the book working out who killed the suspects from the original crime. ( )
  jimleask | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
McDermid, Valprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Alcaino, MicaelaCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bishop, RoyPhotographersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brinkman, SophieTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Capaldi, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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I now describe my country as if to strangers.
From Deacon Blue's "Orphans,"
lyrcis by Ricky Ross
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For the ones who got away; and for the others,
particularly the Thursday Club,
who the getaway possible
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November 2003; St. Andrews, Scotland
He always liked the cemetery at dawn.
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The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart... Some things just won't let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow. On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, it seems that someone is pursuing their own brand of justice. For the remaining two there is only one way to avoid becoming the next victim - find out who really killed Rosie all those years ago...

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