A Place of Execution : A Novel (Paperback)

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, used, and immediately bought it, thinking I would read it sometime soon. Little did I know that once I ...

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 and completely gripping it captures the emotional journey of the characters in a story which spans ov...

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 at conjuring up the 1960s and takes us to the histrionic setting where children go missing and are ...

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 where you're at with this murder mystery. What at first looks like a rather neat and tidy investiga...

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 promoted Inspector George Bennett is determined to solve the case - even if it is just to bring home a...