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Where The Skeleton Road sits
- Series
- Book 3 of Karen Pirie. See all Karen Pirie books in order
- The book before
- A Darker Domain
- The book after
- Out of Bounds
- Order checked
- Last checked: September 25, 2026, against valmcdermid.com
- Place in the series
- It is book 3 of the Karen Pirie series. (valmcdermid.com; read November 6, 2026)
Karen Pirie ... A Darker Domain ... The Skeleton Road
- Next book
- Book 4 is Out of Bounds. (valmcdermid.com; read November 6, 2026)
The Skeleton Road ... Out of Bounds
Checked facts about The Skeleton Road
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- This edition
- The edition checked here is a 406-page hardcover from Atlantic Monthly Press. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
9780802123091 ... hbk. ... 406 pages ... Atlantic Monthly Press
What The Skeleton Road is about
The setup only, with no spoilers. Each line names the record it rests on.
- Builders getting an old Victorian Gothic building in central Edinburgh ready to become luxury flats find a skeleton hidden high in a pinnacle. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats
- Karen Pirie, a detective who works cold cases, sets out to learn whose body it was. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse's identity
- The bones may have come from as far off as the former Yugoslavia. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia
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Other books in Karen Pirie
8 books listed so far
- Book 1: The Distant Echo
- Book 2: A Darker Domain
- Book 4: Out of Bounds
- Book 5: Broken Ground
- Book 6: Still Life
- Book 7: Past Lying
- Book 8: Silent Bones
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