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Original Title:	A Place of Execution
ISBN:	0312979533 (ISBN13: 9780312979539)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Great Britain
Literary Awards:	Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel (2000), Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel (2001), Anthony Award for Best Novel (2001), Dilys Award (2001), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2000) Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001)

A Place of Execution Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	A Place of Execution
Author	:	Val McDermid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2001 by St. Martin's Press (first published June 7th 1999)
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

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Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett 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 inner city; an outcome that reverberates down the years. Decades later he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when her book is poised for publication, Bennett tries to pull the plug. He has new information that he will not divulge, and that threatens the very foundation of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. A taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multilayered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know...

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I came to Val McDermid through the back door of the BBC. You see I was flipping through channels one night and came upon the BBC series Wire In The Blood with Robson Green and I was just fascinated. I became a huge fan of that show because the BBC just knows how to do crime dramas a whole lot better than their American counterparts, Robson Green is a great actor, and at the heart of the show there were great stories being told. Little did I know at the time, that was because the entire series

I get why this book took away so many awards!It touch a subject close to hearts of many and ghosts form the past we want to correct in a way we never be able to.Val McDermid has a flare for writing things into you imagination, making it so real you can't help but picture yourself in a dire situation. This book held nothing less; at times it was a bit repetitive and a lot predictable; but never the less it was an on the edge kind of story that made you want to know where this is all going.This

An incredible stand-alone volume from Val McDermid. I found this novel almost impossible to put down (but one has to make tea and sleep, you know). A very cleverly-framed text, you don't quite know where you're at with this murder mystery. What at first looks like a rather neat and tidy investigation with no (or minimal) loose ends, turns out to be something else entirely. Murder in a small, traditional English country town set in both the 1960s and modern day. And there's always a cup of tea to

This book got rave reviews (judging from the newspaper blurbs on the cover), was given five stars by a lot of goodreads readers, and was highly recommended by a friend of mine. I found it mostly irritating on almost every level. It was very long (in the neighborhood of Moby Dick). It was written with no particular style, with characters who all sounded alike. It was repetitive. The author had an uncanny ability to describe non-dramatic scenes at length while skipping the ones that would have had



A truly disturbing page-turner, one of the best by Ms McDermid.

While with some reservation I've enjoyed reading some of McDermid's Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, I'd never found myself thinking it was bestseller stuff. However, in A Place of Execution, I found myself spellbound with characters, setting and plot.A Place of Execution is a stand-alone book, not one of the Hill/Jordan series. This police procedural and psychological thriller is character-driven with an intricately woven plot from beginning to end. One of my "tests" to help me decide how much