[Critique] “Thus Speak the Dead”, Val McDermid

Surprise: a real estate developer unearths the graves of anonymous children, in the heart of England, near a former boarding school for young girls run by nuns. They cried scandal, of course, and tracked down some of the nuns, who had to explain their “methods”. But now we find other graves nearby, and these contain the remains of several missing people… and the Regional Brigade for Priority Investigations (BREP) soon finds itself in pursuit of an unsuspected serial killer. . The elite unit hasn’t quite been the same since Carol Jordan and Tony Hill left it (read Honeymoon), but they will play an important role in the investigation led by Paula McIntyre. A tight plot, carried out at breakneck speed.

So speak the dead

★★★

Val McDermid, translated from English by Perrine Chambon, Flammarion, Paris 2022, 480 pages

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