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A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution
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A Place of Execution Mass market paperback - 2001

by McDermid, Val

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St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001-09-17. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 69x20x107.
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  • Title A Place of Execution
  • Author McDermid, Val
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-09-17
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0312979533-3-20222040
  • ISBN 9780312979539 / 0312979533
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.75 x 4.25 x 1.3 in (17.15 x 10.80 x 3.30 cm)
  • Size 69x20x107
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Missing children
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years.

Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.

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.

A Place of Execution is winner of the 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.

About the author

Val McDermid was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer living in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing. Her novel A Place of Execution won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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