unicorndeburgh reviewed The distant echo by Val McDermid
From McDermid's webpage: "Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student …
Review of 'The distant echo' on 'Goodreads'
Well-written, suspenseful mystery, set in Scotland. Four college student stumble over a dying woman. No one is ever convicted of attacking and killing her, and they remain the chief suspects. The story takes place half at the time of the murder, and half 25 years later.
Inspector Karen Pirie is a tiny role in this first book -- presumably becoming larger in the rest of the series?