Karen Pirie will be executive produced by Simon Heath, World Production’s CEO. World has been producing critically acclaimed, award winning drama since 1990 and was awarded Best Independent Production Company at both the Broadcast Awards and the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2019. The kidnappers demand a huge ransom for the lives of the lady and her son. However, the delivery of the ransom money goes horribly wrong and Heiress Catriona Maclennan gets killed while running away from the kidnappers and her son goes missing without any trace. After that, the plot of the novel shifts to the time of the year 2008 in Tuscany, when a jogger gets stumbled upon an evidence related to the kidnapping case of Catriona Maclennan. Without giving too much of the story, all we can say is that the writing is crisp, the characters are complicated and very welll defined, and they connect very deeply with the readers. The writing is also straightforward, which makes this story more enjoyable and less of a reading strain. I’m sure this adaptation will bring Karen many new fans as well as delighting her existing ones. Karen and the Historic Cases Unit are in very safe hands!”

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Emer is a new and exciting voice who brings a witty, contemporary take to Val’s brilliant and much-loved Karen Pirie novels. We’re delighted that ITV have given us the chance to bring them to the screen.” The Crown season 5: Everything we know so far about the cast, month of release, time period and more The plot starts with Gordon visiting her old boarding school to write about the grand fund-raising event. A renowned singer and former student named Lorna Smith-Couper is also going to be at the event for a performance. The first in Karen Pirie series is a brilliant read. The story itself is more about the consequences of false blame and how the four friends manage to live through such an ordeal. The main characters are all loveable, and the author does a great job in showing their progression from youth to fully grown people. The writing itself is sharp, crisp and concise, McDermid uses simple language, and the writing is steadily paced. The story itself is divided into segments; the first section follows the events of 1978 with the second taking the reader 25 years after Rosie’s murder. Twenty-five years on, someone appears to be willing to risk everything to keep the secrets surrounding the case hidden. Do the three men know more than they previously revealed? How flawed was the original investigation? And can Karen uncover the truth of what happened to Rosie that fateful night?

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At the same time, a grieving Inspector Karen Pirie is drawn to a mystery she shouldn't be touching – one rooted in terrorist activities during the Troubles.

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When a lobster fisherman finds a dead body in the Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is drawn into a case involving a disappearance, art crimes, and secret identities. At the heart of it lies a talented mimic who seems capable of convincingly copying any painter. The Distant Echo– Four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow and became the only suspects. 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. Report For Murder is the first book in the Lindsay Gordon book series, and it introduces us to the lead of this series, Lindsay Gordon. Gordon is a feminist and a journalist who gets tangled in a very bizarre murder mystery. Twenty-five years later, a cold case review coincides with a new set of murders – this time, someone's targeting the students who found the body all those years earlier. The first dies in a suspicious house fire, and a second is killed soon after. It seems the only thing that can save former student Alex Gilbery is if the original murder is solved. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will take the lead role of Karen Pirie in a new ITV drama series from the producers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, World Productions.In the past, author Val McDermid's works have been adapted into Place of Execution and Wire in the Blood (with Robson Green), but this is the first to be adapted recently. Grant also secretly requests Bel to gather more leads, and she agrees in hopes to get a movie or a book deal from the whole business. Meanwhile, detective Susan and her partner struggle to solve the two cold cases. In historic Edinburgh, developers are preparing to turn a Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They're not expecting the skeletal remains found within. Alex believes that he and his family are going to be the next targets of the killer and so he thinks of saving himself and his innocent family by returning to the haunting past and uncovering the truth about the death of Rosie Duff. The second novel of the Inspector Karen Pirie series was published in the year 2008 by the HarperCollins Publishers. The Inspector Karen Pirie series written by McDermid consists of a total of 3 novels published between the years 2003 and 2014. The first novel of the series was published by St. Martin’s Press in the year 2003 and was titled ‘The Distant Echo’. The plot of the novel is set in Scotland and features Inspector Karen Pirie as the main protagonist. In the opening sequence of the plot, a dead body of a young barmaid is discovered near the Scottish cemetery on a winter morning in the year 1978.

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While the four friends gather around the dying Rosie, little, did they know that it would change their lives forever? Even though Alex the fast of the four runs for help while others try to keep the girl they all know well alive, help arrived a bit late for Rosie. 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. Her first success as a novelist came with Report for Murder The first Lindsay Gordon Mystery, first published in 1987. Without no substantial evidence to point to the culprit, and with their alibis not convincing enough, the four friends who were acting as good Samaritan and had Rosie’s blood all over their clothes in efforts to keep her alive, find themselves the main suspects in Rosie’s murder. While they are never formally charged with the murder and no evidence against them, the suspicion that follows them forever changes their lives, and Rosie’s death would remain unsolved for decades.

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The book has been adapted for screen by writer and actress Emer Kenny, who also stars in the show alongside Lauren Lyle. Speaking to BT, Kenny said “I am so grateful to Val McDermid for lending me her brilliant characters, and beyond excited to work with the actors and Gareth Bryn to bring them to the screen”. Broken Ground– When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands,DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone’s long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past – until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems.