VAL MCDERMID- A PLACE OF EXECUTION

A Place of Execution by Val McDermid 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: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from an isolated Derbyshire hamlet. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation filled with dead ends and closed faces, an outcome which reverberates down the years. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when her book is to be published, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. 549 PAGES. CONDITION: SOME CREASING TO CORNERS OVERALL GOOD CONDITION