Karen Pirie (2022) is a British crime series adapted from the Inspector Karen Pirie novels by Scottish writer Val McDermid.

In the 1st series, based on The Distant Echo novel, Detective-Sergeant Karen Pirie is tasked with reviewing a cold case. Rosie Duff was murdered 25 years previously and a podcaster is asking why there’s been no reappraisal since.

When she was 15, Rosie Duff relinquished her baby for adoption. That baby, now 27, commits serious crimes in this series.