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A Place of Execution is a crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by The New York Times as one of the most notable books of the year.
Place of Execution: With Lee Ingleby, Emma Cunniffe, Juliet Stevenson, Philip Jackson. A young girl mysteriously vanishes from her English village home. 45 years later, a journalist's attempts to make a documentary on the case threaten to shatter the lives of all involved.
It's also the centerpiece of A Place of Execution, the latest crime novel by Val McDermid (author of the Kate Brannigan and Lindsay Gordon mystery series). Although Bennett and his investigative partner, Sergeant Tommy Clough, succeeded in building the case and Hawkin was convicted on a murder charge and executed, Alison's body was never found.
A Place of Execution. In this “absorbing [and] ingenious” (Variety) mystery, journalist Catherine Heathcote is making a film about the 1963 disappearance of a schoolgirl when events force her to reexamine the original investigation, led by DI George Bennett (Lee Ingleby, George Gently).
In 1963 schoolgirl Alison Carter disappears from the village of Scardale and young policeman George Bennett investigates. Although there is no body it is treated with the seriousness of a murder case, suspects numbering Alison's school-friend Charlie Lomas, though he is eliminated from enquiries and her uncle Simon, a known sex offender, who is ...
On a freezing December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. As the entire country watched, newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett turned up enough evidence to see his suspect hanged and was hailed a hero by the people of Scardale.
Sep 17, 2001 · A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's A Place of Execution 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.
- Val McDermid
Season 1 – Place of Execution on Masterpiece. A journalist returns to the village of Scardale to investigate the case of a missing schoolgirl.
Feb 1, 2006 · A Greek tragedy in modern England, A Place of Execution is a taut psychological suspense thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multilayered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
Place of Execution. Watch Episode. In this "absorbing [and] ingenious" (Variety) mystery, journalist Catherine Heathcote is making a film about the 1963 disappearance of a schoolgirl when events force her to reexamine the original investigation, led by DI George Bennett (Lee Ingleby, George Gently).
