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Title	:	A Place of Execution
Author	:	Val McDermid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

A Place of Execution

Val McDermid

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 9611 Users | 740 Reviews

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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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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)

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This book will stay with me for a long time. There's no easy way to describe how much I enjoyed reading it and how deep into the story I felt myself immersing. I read it slowly so as to savour each chapter.1998. Catherine Heathcote is a journalist writing a book about a 35-year-old mystery. She is hoping to persuade retired Chief Inspector George Bennett to open up about the case after a long silence.It's December 1963 and a mother frantically calls the police, reporting her thirteen-year-old

3.5 starsThis 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 Scardale in Derbyshire resembles a feudal town. The owner of the manor house, who functions as 'Lord of the Manor', controls the land on which Scardale residents farm and raise livestock. There are only a



As a crime fan, the name Val McDermid, always seems to have been on the periphery of my vision one of those authors you really need to read; perhaps doubly so with my recent love of Tartan Noir and the many great Scottish crime novelists appearing, while she was one of the very originals. As such, I decided that, this year, I would finally get around to trying her work and, A Place of Execution, a stand-alone, usually regarded as her best work, seemed a good place to start. Winner of the Los

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

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 read a lot of mystery series, and I had forgotten how refreshing it can be to read a stand-alone crime novel --especially a well-crafted one.When an author doesn't have to worry about introducing a main character as someone the readers will want to love and follow, she's free to do some extraordinary things with the plot.As a result, we also see Detective Inspector George Bennett in a different light than series detectives.We may not know what he buys when he goes shopping or what record he