

A Place of Execution
Author: Val McDermid
Narrator: Paddy Glynn
Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Val McDermid
Narrator: Paddy Glynn
Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
One of Britain's most popular authors of contemporary crime fiction, Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community, read English at Oxford, then returned to Scotland to work as a journalist. She was National Bureau Chief on a national Sunday tabloid before quitting in 1991 to become a full-time novelist.
Thirteen year-old Alison Carter doesn't come home from walking her dog; in the very small tight knit Peak District (in the UK) community of Sarsdale, truly everyone knows or is related to everyone, a child abduction is so unheard of, especially as we're talking the winter of 1963! The very tight-lip......more
3.5 ~ 4★ “The only thing he might have expected to find but hadn't was a bible. On the other hand, Scardale was so cut off from the rest of the world, they might still be worshipping the corn goddess here. Maybe the missionaries had never made it this far.” Scardale is such a remote English village th......more
3.5 stars This book is divided into two parts. In the first section, set in the early 1960s, a teenage girl disappears from a small English village and the police investigate. In the second section, set in 1998, a reporter writes a book about the mid-century incident. In 1963, the tiny hamlet of Scar......more
Part of my 2019 "returning to old favourites" I'd forgotten just how utterly clever, compelling and brilliantly plotted this was. Lots of authors have attempted this type of unpredictable read since but this is the masterclass. Of course I knew what was coming this time which meant I read it in a who......more