A Darker Domain
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Price:
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$22.95
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On Sale:
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19/01/2009
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Formats:
Trade PB
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In Britain circa 1984, the news is dominated by the national miners’
strike. The region of Fife in Scotland is hard hit by the strike, devastated
economically and shaken by clashes between miners and police. Against this
violent and bitter backdrop, heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son
are kidnapped. The ransom should have gone smoothly, but instead, the payoff
goes horribly wrong, and Catriona and her son disappear without a trace.
Twenty-four years later, dramatic new evidence discovered by
a jogger in Tuscany prompts police to reopen the cold case. Detective Sergeant
Karen Pirie leads the investigation. It won’t be the only cold case to end up on
her desk. A young woman soon walks into the station reporting a missing person,
Mick Prentice, who abandoned his family in Fife in 1984 to join the
strike-breakers down south. Labelled a blackleg scab, he might as well be dead
as far as his friends and relatives are concerned.
Past and present intertwine as McDermid, author of the
bestselling Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries, weaves a dark novel of
psychological suspense.
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
A Darker Domain
"Peerless...one of the world's finest crime writers."
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Glasgow Herald
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A Darker Domain
In Britain circa 1984, the news is dominated by the national miners’ strike. The region of Fife in Scotland is hard hit by the strike, devastated economically and shaken by clashes between miners and police. Against this violent and bitter backdrop, heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son...
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