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1979 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
She's hunting for a killer story . . . 1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Su ...Show more
1979 (#1 Allie Burns) by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
The shadows hide a deadly story . . . 1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposin ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Allie Burns Ser.
There's nothing like a killer story . . .1989. The world is changing, and Allie Burns is still on the front line, covering the stories that count.Although Allie is no longer an investigative journalist, her instincts are sharper than ever. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's mo ...Show more
1989 by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Allie Burns 2
It's 1989 and Allie Burns is back. Older and maybe wiser, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the me ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie 2
Past and present intertwine in this brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed from bestselling mistress of suspense Val McDermid.Fife, Scotland, 1984. Mick Prentice abandons his family at the height of a politically charged national miners' strike to join the strikebreakers down south. Despised and dis ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction
Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of Scotland's richest man and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate is still unknown. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case ...Show more
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The superb new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history - the national miners' strike 1984, Fife: Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wro ...Show more
A Darker Domain (#2 Karen Pirie) by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Detective Karen Pirie
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, 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 m ...Show more
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction
George Bennett decides to tell journalist Catherine Heathcote the story of his investigation of the disappearance of 13-year-old Alison Carter in 1963 from the isolated hamlet of Scardale. But just as the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug.
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction - Val McDermid. In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn't just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of '63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remem ...Show more
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Riveting psycholgical thriller from Gold Dagger Award Winning author: 'Compelling and atmospheric!a tour de force' -- MINETTE WALTERS Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, ...Show more