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. ‘A superb mystery' The Times ‘Val McDermid is a born storyteller' Sunday Telegraph ‘A searing piece … McDermid orchestrates the tension with authority.' Express ‘Torture, warped psyches, unspeakable cellars: Val McDermid sends you to bed with lights blazing' Sunday Times ‘One of the best modern writers of crime fiction … Excellent' Scotland on Sunday
© 2009 W. F. Howes Ltd (Lydbog): 9781407447605
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Lydbog: 1. august 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. ‘A superb mystery' The Times ‘Val McDermid is a born storyteller' Sunday Telegraph ‘A searing piece … McDermid orchestrates the tension with authority.' Express ‘Torture, warped psyches, unspeakable cellars: Val McDermid sends you to bed with lights blazing' Sunday Times ‘One of the best modern writers of crime fiction … Excellent' Scotland on Sunday
© 2009 W. F. Howes Ltd (Lydbog): 9781407447605
Release date
Lydbog: 1. august 2009
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Lone
23. nov. 2022
Val McDermid bliver bare bedre og bedre jo flere bøger man læser. Karen Pirie er et behageligt bekendtskab, ikke så meget tju Bang, men god underholdning og gode plot
Susanne April
26. jul. 2021
En rigtig pageturner. Spændende sager der springer i tid og geografi. Den tager nogle drejninger som på den ene side virker underlige og derfor også uventet, men ved nærmere eftertanke ligger der noget dybere familiært til grund. Lige som man tror Karen har regnet det ud, sker det næste, som ændre det samlede billede.
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