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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.
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- 2009-11
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 137
19 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Complex but masterly thriller. brice-18 14 March 2009. What a pity that Robert Hanks' callow review of the first episode is the only external assessment of this gripping thriller.
Season 1 – Place of Execution on Masterpiece 2009 Drama List Reviews A journalist returns to the village of Scardale to investigate the case of a missing schoolgirl.
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.
- Val McDermid
- 1999
Oct 31, 2009 · ‘Masterpiece Contemporary: Place of Execution’ Where: KCET. When: 9 p.m. Sunday. Rating: TV-14-L (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with an advisory for coarse language)
- mary.mcnamara@latimes.com
- Culture Columnist And Critic
Heathcote's re-creation of the 1963 investigation, trial and execution captures not only the depressing atmosphere of the remote village but the gray, post-war atmosphere that still hangs over rural England.
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Jun 7, 1999 · 17,440 ratings1,195 reviews. Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale.
