Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award
2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime
writing.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 February 2009.
McDermid produces yet another gripping, gritty psychological thriller, moving back and forth between the miners strike of the mid 80’s to present day. Two cases with two determined women trying to solve them, it will keep you guessing until the end.
The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.
'A superb mystery' The Times
From the creators of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, KAREN PIRIE is now on ITV, starring Lauren Lyle (Outlander)
Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since.
When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail.
She's already working a case from the same year. During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?
The truth is stranger - and far darker - than fiction.
Praise for Val McDermid's psychological thrillers:
'Absorbing modern mystery… McDermid's mix of historical and literary clues with modern detection is handled with panache' The Times
'One of the world's leading mystery writers…Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha Christie, if you will… a great read' Observer
'A cleverly plotted thriller. It should gain her a crowd of new fans' Guardian
Author
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a number one bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger, the LA Times Book of the Year Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. Val writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.
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