A place of execution
by Val McDermid
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When thirteen-year-old Alison Carter disappears from an isolated Derbyshire hamlet one December day in 1963, it is the start of policeman George Bennett's most notorious case. Years later, he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, the story of a murder case with no body, and investigation with too many dead ends and blank faces. But when the book is poised for publication, George Bennett tries to pull the plug. He has new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.
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Police, Missing children, Fiction, Women journalists, Women authors, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Deception, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Women journalists, fiction, Criminal investigation, English literature, AbductionPlaces
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Originally published: London: HarperCollins, 1999.
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Essentially a police procedural, this book poses serious questions about habeas corpus in a murder trial where the death penalty is exacted. Brilliantly conceived and written, the plot itself is not as impressive as the characters who people the narrative. Set in two time periods, the '60s and the '90's, the terrifying twist at the end is worthy of anything the Greeks dreamt up in their nightmares.
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