The Distant Echo

The Distant Echo

<p><i>Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in</i> The Distant Echo<i>---an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge</i></p><p>It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood <br>on their hands, no one was ever charged.</p><p>Twenty five years later, the Cold Case file on Rosie Duff has been reopened. For Alex and his friends, the investigation has also opened old wounds, haunting memories-and new fears. For a stranger has emerged from the shadows with his own ideas about justice. And revenge.</p><p>When two of Alex's friends die under suspicious circumstances, Alex knows that he and his innocent family are the next targets. And there's only way to save them: return to the cold-blooded past and uncover the startling truth about the murder. For there lies the identity of an avenging killer...</p>