A Darker Domain, Val McDermid
A Darker Domain, Val McDermid
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A Darker Domain

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Eilidh Fraser

Unabridged: 12 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/05/2010


Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize “A thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history.”—Seattle Times Don't miss the Karen Pirie on BritBox, based on Val McDermid's mystery series! The New York Times calls Val McDermid, “As smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there … the best we’ve got.” Time spent with her extraordinary thriller, A Darker Domain, will prove that it’s true. Set in Scotland, McDermid’s brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed intertwines the past and present. Fife, Scotland, 1984. Mick Prentice abandons his family at the height of a politically charged national miners' strike to join the strikebreakers down south. Despised and disowned by friends and relatives, he is not reported missing until twenty-three years later. Fife, Scotland, 1985. Kidnapped heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant is killed and her baby son vanishes when the ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. In 2008, a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation. Already immersed in the Prentice affair, Detective Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case Review Team, wants to make her mark with this second unsolved 1980s mystery. But two decades' worth of secrets are leading Pirie into a dark domain of violence and betrayal—a place darker than any she has previously entered.

About Val Mcdermid

Val McDermid is the author of many crime novels and has created the notable characters Lindsay Gordon, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill. Her novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 16 million copies. Visit her online at ValMcDermid.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

3.5 stars In this 2nd book in the 'Inspector Karen Pirie' series, the cold case cop looks for a man who disappeared 22 years ago and a kidnapped baby boy who's been missing for over two decades. The book can be read as a standalone. ***** The 1984 coal miners' strike in Great Britain hit the Scottish t......more