Silent Bones Alison Gaylin G.P. Putnam's Sons FF Hardback 2024 when Frances Adams was 17

when Frances Adams was 17

Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease and now they turn elsewhere for protection

The Finnish police force has over two hundred unsolved homicides from the last 50 year

Among this long

and seemingly lacking in empathy

Silent Bones Alison Gaylin G.P. Putnam's Sons FF Hardback 2024 when Frances Adams was 17When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac 11 years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fianc 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 accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like