{"product_id":"a-place-of-execution","title":"A Place of Execution","description":"Used mass_market in Good condition. \u003cp\u003eWinter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. 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 with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's \u003ci\u003eA Place of Execution\u003c\/i\u003e is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Place of Execution\u003c\/i\u003e is winner of the 2000 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize and a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McDermid, Val","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53876244316443,"sku":"mon0000673918","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/11364183482299.jpg?v=1788532494","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/a-place-of-execution","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}