Number one bestselling author and Queen of Crime Val McDermid joins us for a highlight event to share the latest in her thrilling Karen Pirie series, Silent Bones. As DCI Pirie and her team search for the truth behind a journalist’s body found under a Scottish motorway, new evidence reopens a closed case back in Edinburgh linking back to the city’s rich and powerful. With this series recently made into an ITV drama, Val shares how her protagonist Pirie has evolved throughout the years and explores what turns a character into a lasting icon. Chaired by TV and radio presenter - and crime writing enthusiast - Bryan Burnett.