Val McDermidCrime · Mystery·b. 1955
A Place of Execution
Synopsis
In 1963, Detective Inspector George Bennett is hunting a missing girl in rural England; decades later, journalist Catherine Heathcote investigates why he walked away from the case entirely. Two timelines converge as the truth behind a decades-old disappearance and a man's silence comes to light.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10