A Place of Execution - Couverture rigide

McDermid, Val

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1587241250 ISBN 13 : 9781587241253

Editeur : Wheeler Pub Inc, 2001

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

On a freezing day in December 1963, Alison Carter vanishes from her rural village, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case—a suspected murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he’d have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome that reverberates through the years.            Decades later Bennett finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, he unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information that he refuses to divulge, new information which threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.             A Greek tragedy in modern England, A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes, and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multilayered narrative that turns expectation on its head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.  A Place of Execution is a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.

Biographie de l'auteur

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1587241250
• ISBN 13: 9781587241253
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 659
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• Personne responsable: non disponible