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Jan 1, 1998 · The events in her book occurred in 1963/64 and describe the Alison Carter case. Book 2 is where we get the real story, and what a story it is. Execution. A noun meaning killing. Also a noun meaning the carrying out of a task. A Place of Execution is a very appropriate title for this book, and Val McDermid is an accomplished executioner.
Heathcote's gripping account of Bennett's investigation, written 25 years after the 1963 Carter slaying and based on interviews with the now-retired inspector, is a story-within-a-story. It's also the centerpiece of A Place of Execution, the latest crime novel by Val McDermid (author of the Kate Brannigan and Lindsay Gordon mystery series ...
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.
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She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. In 2011 she received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer ...
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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 expectation on its head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know. On a freezing day in December 1963, Alison ...
May 22, 2009 · ‘A substantial book and an impressive one, possibly the best McDermid has written and it takes this most accomplished writer into higher territory’ Sunday Telegraph 'A Place of Execution is a wake-up call to crime writers everywhere. A terrific and original novel, brilliantly executed' Mirror
- Val McDermid
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Aug 1, 2002 · McDermid, Val. A Place of Execution (1999) St. Martin’s, 465 pages, $6.99 mass market paperback. ISBN 0-312-97953-3. Recommended. British writer Catherine Heathcote has nearly finished her book about a famous case, the disappearance of 13-year-old Alison Carter 25 years earlier. Although Heathcote has interviewed all the people still living ...
