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#5301 of 8,085 books · #1790 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2009).

The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail. She's already working a case from the same year. During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery? The truth is stranger - and far darker - than fiction.

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Publisher
HarperCollins UK
ISBN-13
9780007243310
Topics
Cold case investigationKidnapping and ransomMiners' Strike of 1984

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