Darker Domain

AvVal McDermid

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Del 2 i serien Detective Karen Pirie

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The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. ‘A superb mystery’ The Times From the creators of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, KAREN PIRIE is now on ITV, starring Lauren Lyle (Outlander)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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-02
Mått:129 x 197 x 26 mm
Vikt:260 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Detective Karen Pirie
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:9780007243310
Miljömärkning:Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

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Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. In 2017, she received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is also the patron of the Scottish Book Trust. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.

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‘An absorbing novel, one of her best’ The Times‘Val McDermid is a born storyteller… absorbing reading’ Sunday Telegraph‘A searing piece … McDermid orchestrates the tension with authority… After reading McDermid’s novel, readers may wish that more crime fiction would have the guts to take on serious issues’ 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 SundayPraise for Val McDermid:'No one rivals Val McDermid’s skill at writing truly terrifying thrillers’ Good Housekeeping‘The real mistress of psychological gripping thrillers' Daily Express'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The Times‘Val McDermid is undoubtedly the queen of British crime’ Observer'McDermid’s expertly juggled plotlines and masterful handling of pace and tension tick all the best boxes’ Guardian‘The queen of crime is still at the top of her game’ Independent‘One of today’s most accomplished crime writers’ Literary Review‘Her writing is never less than excellent’ Crime Time