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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) |
Val McDermid
Paperback | Pages: 480 pages Rating: 4.11 | 9611 Users | 740 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Place of Execution |
| Author | : | Val McDermid |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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Ratings: 4.11 From 9611 Users | 740 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books A Place of Execution
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 heA Place Of Execution by Val McDermidMy dad (who reads two, maybe three books a week) told me that this was the best mystery hed read in a long time. With an endorsement like that, who was I to argue? He tossed the book my way and in no time, I was hooked. The time is 1963 and the setting is one of the many things about this long, tangled thriller that enthralled me. Welcome to the fictitious English village of Scardale; a remote farming community with families so inter-related that by the time
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.
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
Rating Clarification: 4.5 StarsA truely outstanding murder mystery, and one I would recommend to any fan of the genre. More then just a straightforward whodunnit, McDermid intricately explored the bonds that held an insular agricultural community together in early 1960's northern England. She fully captured the sense of time (almost too much so with her never-ending references to tea and cigarette usage), and the sense of desperation, anguish and helplessness that would come to any parent of a
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