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A Place of Execution
- Narrated by: Paddy Glynn
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
In the Peak District village of Scarsdale, 13-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of '63, everyone knew it was a murder.
Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well - a child herself when Alison vanished. Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story - plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations.
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- Kirstine
- 08-07-20
Riveting
I rate this as Val McDermid's finest novel. I was gripped from start to finish and consumed it in two days. I felt I was witnessing the events as they happened. It's a great story made even better by the excellent narrator who gives characters different voices that makes them seem like real people.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-24
Stick with it because it becomes brilliant!!!
What a brilliant book!!! Was a little slow to start & took me a long time (& a lot of concentration) to understand who was who & how they were related, to the point I almost turned off & started something else!! But I'm so glad I stuck with it!! I couldn't stop listening! I can usually guess plot twists but a few of these I did not see coming!! Narration is great & everything is tied up in the end! I can't recommend this enough!!
I'm now going to have a book hangover that's going to take me days to recover from!!
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- Colette Hodson
- 28-06-21
I wasn't Expecting That!
Really Interesting story and great writing. I thought I had finished the book when the second half started! What a shock! I wasn't expecting that!!
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- Justyna
- 18-07-24
Book that kept on giving
That was like 3 books in one, when I though it was finishing another story was unfolding. Engaging, interesting, great story, relatable character, Could not put it down. Listen to it you will not regret.
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- Barbara Warren
- 24-07-24
Compelling listen but ............
Compelling listen but it was spoilt from but the consistent references to smoking , lighting up , filling lungs , offering cigarettes.
It became an absolute obsession .
It portrays northerners as chain smoking ,tea drinking and alcohol drinking obsessives who struggle to survive without these crutches and that doesn't sit well with me , even if I am a Londoner !!
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- yamahajacks
- 06-08-21
this authour's stories seem so very real
a rollercoaster of emotions, i lived it like it was a current real crime, i couldn't stop listening- only my second of her books the first hooked me (the grave tattoo) i will look for more, given that i want the one off novels to be a series once they end i will trust her and tackle a series next
life changing val mcdermid, thank you
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- Mrs J Andrew
- 29-07-20
Val McDermid triumphs again
brilliant storyline great linking with actual facts of the day. A fascinating read yet again
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- Steven
- 25-01-17
A listen worth doing
Very good book that lost me a tiny bit in the middle part but that might be down to the gap I left in listening to the book!
On the whole a really good listen that got more consuming in the second part & developed twists & turns that I had to rewind to fully comprehend!
Worth a go for sure
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- Malgorzata Czaplicka
- 07-06-21
It seems to be so easy, light story but it's not.
Amaizing, Surprising, Well reading story. Strongly recommend for both man and woman. Very good story.
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- gfplux
- 12-08-21
Excellent
A very clever and complicated detective novel with a big twist although not a complete surprise.
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