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A Place of Execution is a crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by The New York Times as one of the most notable books of the year.
- Val McDermid
- 1999
Jan 1, 2001 · Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale.
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- Mass Market Paperback
A journalist returns to her hometown to make a documentary about a 1963 disappearance case that haunted the community. The series explores the dark secrets and lies of the past and present, with a twist of justice and morality.
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- 2009-11
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 46
A journalist revisits the 1963 murder of a 13-year-old girl by her stepfather, a pedophile squire, and uncovers a dark secret in the remote English village of Scardale. The novel explores the criteria and manipulation of truth in journalism, law and crime.
Jan 1, 2000 · In A Place of Execution, we follow the story of Alison Carter, a pretty girl gone missing from her stark, secluded village.
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- Val McDermid
A Place of Execution. In this “absorbing [and] ingenious” (Variety) mystery, journalist Catherine Heathcote is making a film about the 1963 disappearance of a schoolgirl when events force her to reexamine the original investigation, led by DI George Bennett (Lee Ingleby, George Gently).
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Sep 17, 2001 · A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
- Val McDermid
