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Having worked through a number of intriguing cases that garnered much curiosity in past novels, McDermid offers readers more recent and controversial regional history to weave into the already exciting narrative. But, as Pirie's case is deeply rooted in the bloody, tragic past of Croatia, the other two points of view are a natural connection to her narrative. While there, Maggie had fallen in love with a Croatian army officer, so stayed on once the war began. But suddenly there were more people involved in this case than she had wanted – a spate of murders across the continent was hovering at the edge of her investigation as well.
Meanwhile, two members of an international war crimes tribunal also are seeking Petrovic as they try to find out who is meting out "rough justice" by killing people accused of war atrocities before they can be indicted. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years.I'm a big fan of Val McDermids Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, but I have not really found time to explore her other books so I found it interesting to read this book and to some extent did I think it was really good. The two ICTY lawyers, though rather inept at first glance, bring needed background and information with their POV chapters. Just as things seem to be clearing up for Karen and the Mint, they’re getting even muddier for Alan Macanespie and Theo Proctor, two underachieving drones at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, whose activist new boss, Wilson Cagney, is determined to get them to pull their weight for a change by investigating a yearslong rash of assassinations of ICTFY targets just before they were to be arrested.
A grisly discovery atop the roof of a venerable Edinburgh school slated for demolition sends two very different sets of investigators scurrying for answers rooted in the endless conflict between Serbs and Croats. Unusually, it takes the Balkans conflicts as its background, which I haven't encountered as a setting for fiction previously. But when the future of the world depends on it, these heroes don't pump the brakes--they go full throttle.bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. The old Victorian John Drummond School in historic Edinburgh had been abandoned for the last twenty years – it had had its share of squatters and the like, but now the building was being checked for stability; the old battlements, turrets and pinnacles needed to be assessed before it could be converted into flats. As well as the flashbacks to the 90s there are investigations into the murder in Edinburgh as well as some civil service types chasing up connections between a series of assassinations internationally.
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