Detective Karen Pirie - A Darker Domain (Detective Karen Pirie, Book 2): Abridged edition
The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.
‘A superb mystery’ The Times
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 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. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?
The truth is stranger – and far darker – than fiction.
”'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