McDermid, Val. A DARKER DOMAIN - Harper Collins 2008

The Book

For sale is a very good hardback copy of the novel, A Darker Domain by Val McDermid, published in 2008 by Harper Collins.

The book is a first edition, first printing as evidenced by a number 1 on the copyright page.

The book has black boards and silver lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean and white, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight with some creasing to the spine.

The fine wrapper is complete showing the original cover price of £18.99.

Overall a very good copy of a novel by a popular author.

The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publisher's stamps.

The Author

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. Mcdermid was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid, but is now a full time writer of crime novels and has been shortlisted for the CWA's Gold dagger Award.

The Novel

It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child.

So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn't hold much hope of unraveling the infamous enigma.

She's already investigating a case from the same year.
At the height of the miner's strike, Mick Prentice broke ranks to join `scab' strike-breakers down south. But new evidence suggests Mick's disappearance may not be as straightforward as that - and Karen's investigations take her into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and the ultimate violence...

Past and present intertwine in a novel of taut psychological suspense that explores the intersection of desire and greed.

Reviews

Sunday Times
'Reminiscent of one of Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine thrillers - a few more sly, old-fashioned whodunits like this and she'll join the sturdy ranks of the queens of crime, on course to become Dame Val or Baroness McDermid'

Scotland on Sunday
`One of the best modern writers of crime fiction... excellent'

The Times
'Absorbing modern mystery! McDermid's mix of historical and literary clues with modern detection is handled with panache'

Guardian
'One of the world's leading mystery writers!Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha Christie, if you will! a great read' Observer 'A cleverly plotted thriller. It should gain her a crowd of new fans'

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