A Darker Domain (Detective Karen Pirie, Book 2) - Rilegato

McDermid, Val

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ISBN 10: 0007243294 ISBN 13: 9780007243297

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

Val McDermid, creator of TV’s Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.

Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But 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. He was presumed to have broken ranks and fled south with other 'scabs'... but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don't add up. 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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Recensione:

‘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 Sunday

L'autore:

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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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007243294
• ISBN 13: 9780007243297
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384