In The Distant Echo, McDermid writes an vivid tale of St Andrews in the late 1970s, her local knowledge — she grew up in Fife — creates a powerful sense of place. More visceral is the mistrust she establishes between the four friends, the police and the murdered girl’s family. She keeps you believing that first one, then another of the four was responsible for Rosie McDuff’s death.

His fall was broken by something soft. Alex struggled to sit up, pushing against whatever it was he had landed on. Spluttering snow, he wiped his eyes with his tingling fingers, breathing hard through his nose in a bid to clear it of the freezing melt. He glanced around to see what had cushioned his landing just as the heads of his three companions appeared on the hillside to gloat over his farcical calamity. Blood. The realization dawned at the same instant that the snow in his ears melted and allowed him to hear the faint but stertorous wheeze of her breath.Rebels Report #2: Behind the scenes with Brent Friedman on rebelsreport.com ( November 22, 2013): "[starting around 26:50] So my episodes that I wrote for Season Six were going to be—I was told by Dave [Filoni] they were going to be the premiere episodes for Season Seven." (archived from the original on April 18, 2017) What's New on Disney Plus February 2020, Including Toy Story 4 by Gregory Lawrance on collider.com (archived from the original on January 25, 2020)

Stunning new psychological thriller from Britain's most exciting crime writer, the award-winning Val McDermid... 'Val McDermid is a roaring Ferrari amid the crowded traffic on the crime-writing road' -- Independent Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in the ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young students stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has their own idea of how justice should be done. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire. Soon after, a second is killed in what looks like a burglary gone sour. But Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. He has to find out who it is before he becomes the next victim. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Twenty-five years later, the police started a cold case review; technological advances should help convict Rosie’s killer. Within weeks, two men who found Rosie’s body are dead, and another has been beaten to within an inch of his life. The police, however, are reluctant to connect the incidents. The only way the remaining witness can survive is to find out who murdered Rosie all those years ago. Review A Distant Echo" is an episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. The episode was originally intended to be the second episode of a seventh season, but production on the television series was halted before the episode was completed. Scripted by Brent Friedman, it is the second installment in a four-part story arc focusing on a ragtag unit of clone commandos, Clone Force 99. The episode, along with the rest of its arc, premiered on April 17, 2015 at Celebration Anaheim and was released on StarWars.com shortly after on April 29, 2015. [7] How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues Time/era of story: - 2000+ (Present) Believing that MIA soldier Echo may still be alive, Rex's mission becomes doubly important. Alongside the Bad Batch and Anakin Skywalker, the clone captain launches a dangerous covert rescue."