A Place of Execution

from womansheart

Surprising "Jack-in-the Box" resolution brings great pleasure to reading this village mystery by Val McDermid This novel wasn't available at my usual source, The Library, so I found it on-line, use...

from ruthm2010

A young girl goes missing from her home in a small close-knit Derbyshire community and a major police investigation into the circumstances surrounding her disappearance begins. Utterly believable a...

from Ant.Harrison

Oh, if only Val McDermid would write more books like this: stand-alone crime novels which are gripping and believable and that leave resonances after you've read the last page. Here, she is so good...

from jselliott

An incredible stand-alone volume from Val McDermid. I found this novel almost impossible to put down (but one has to make tea and sleep, you know). A very cleverly-framed text, you don't quite know...

from ct.bergeron

On a feezing day in December 1963. 13 years old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same for the inhabitant of the isolated hamlet in the english countryside. Newly pr...