Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational Whether you're a casual viewer

Whether you're a casual viewer or a media professional

and stock up your fridge and freezer so that you'll never struggle to decide what to have for dinner again

with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck

But power has its price

Kathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices

Silent Bones (Karen Pirie), Val McDermid Inspirational Whether you're a casual viewerThe truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiance when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the