The Distant Echo: Book 1 (Detective Karen Pirie)

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Ferguson, Brian (29 August 2022). "Val McDermid reveals 'Queen of Crime' legal threat from Agatha Christie estate". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 29 September 2022.to the mystery, not the subplot? - 70% Misc. Murder Plotlets - Proving innocence of very obvious suspect Kind of investigator - police procedural, British Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book a b "Interview: It can be murder, but Val McDermid's love of Raith is no mystery". The Scotsman. 10 April 2010.

How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues Time/era of story: - 2000+ (Present)

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The series is based on Val McDermid’s first Karen Pirie novel The Distant Echo, and in the first episode Karen is tasked with reopening an historic murder investigation that has been the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast. With the development of forensics it is possible to reopen old cases that were previously unsolved as Karen Pirie looks into a 25 year old case of a murdered barmaid named Rosie Duff. Four young men known as Gilly, Ziggy, Weird, and Mondo had been drinking stumble across a body in the snow in the early morning on their way home from a party. The police suspect one or more of the men of raping the woman but cannot get enough evidence to bring it to court and so the case goes cold. Rosie's brothers and the local community believe at least one of the men is guilty causing a lot of bad feeling. It’s also rare for a show’s creative team to be so young. Lyle has her first lead role at 29 in a show steered by the 32-year-old Kenny as writer and executive producer. Kenny also co-stars, playing DS Pirie’s best friend, River. Karen Pirie has been commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama, Polly Hill. Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair Jones will oversee production from the channel’s perspective.

Mina, Denise (February 2002). "Denise Mina talks to Val McDermid". Sunday Herald. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 9 July 2007. Twenty-five years later, police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has his own idea of justice. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire and soon after, a second is killed. Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.

I am really tired of the trope of having people with poor childhoods being made the assholes in the book. Yes, some people who grew-up in abusive homes grow up to be assholes. But, most of us end up as generally nice people, who usually only hurt ourselves rather than other people. And really, as if we do not have a difficult enough time with the stigmas and taboos around being abused as children, let us now also have to deal with the stereotypes created by this type of book. BLARGH! ITV’s new police drama has it all: a cold case, a podcast, and a killer cast. Adapted from Val McDermid's detective novel The Distant Echo by Emer Kenny, Karen Piriecentres on the horrific murder of 19-year-old barmaid Rosie Duff, and a true crime podcaster’s fight to finally get to the bottom of a now-forgotten crime. Though there are a few key differences between McDermid’s novel and Kenny’s adaptation, the general plot remains: the reopening of Rosie Duff’s murder case, and Karen Pirie’s investigation. But do they share a similar resolution? And how does The Distant Echo actually end? The novel is divided into two parts. The first part takes place in 1978. Four drunken friends, university students, stumble across the body of a dying woman, someone they slightly knew, a young barmaid at a local tavern. As it is immediately obvious that the barmaid, Rosie Duff was raped and murdered, the four friends are considered suspects by the local police, and because they all have secrets, their final half-year at the university is disrupted by fear and distrust. Their ten-year friendship is irrevocably changed under the spectre of suspicion. Meanwhile, the investigation into the Rosie’s murder goes nowhere. In 2010, she was living between Northumberland and Manchester with publisher Kelly Smith, [33] with whom she had entered into a civil partnership in 2006. [2]

On 6 December 2012 a woman poured ink over McDermid during an event at the University of Sunderland. [20] McDermid was signing books, and a woman asked her to autograph a Top of the Pops annual which contained a picture of the disgraced late TV presenter Jimmy Savile. After McDermid reluctantly agreed the woman threw ink at her and ran out of the room. [21] McDermid said the incident would not stop her from doing signings. [22] [23] a b "Dr Val McDermid – English, 1972". St Hilda's College, Oxford. 29 January 2016 . Retrieved 29 May 2019.

a b Coreena Ford (29 December 2012). "Author Val McDermid assaulted at Sunderland book signing". Journal Live . Retrieved 11 January 2012. Having previously read other books in this series and enjoyed them immensely, I decided to start the series from the very beginning with the novel ' The Distant Echo'. This is the Inspector Karen Pirie series by author Val McDermid, who works in Fife investigating cold cases.