Past and present intertwine in this brilliant exploration of loyalty and greedfrom bestselling mistress of suspense Val McDermid.Fife Scotland 1984. Mick Prenti... » 

Past and present intertwine in this brilliant exploration of loyalty and greedfrom bestselling mistress of suspense Val McDermid.Fife Scotland 1984. Mick Prentice abandons his family at the height of apolitically charged national miners strike to join the strikebreakers downsouth. Despised and disowned by friends and relatives he is not reportedmissing until twentythree years later.Fife Scotland 1985. Kidnapped heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant is killedand her baby son vanishes when the ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. In 2008a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens theinvestigation.Already immersed in the Prentice affair Detective Karen Pirie newly appointedhead of the Cold Case Review Team wants to make her mark with this secondunsolved 1980s mystery. But two decades worth of secrets are leading Pirieinto a dark domain of violence and betrayala place darker than any she haspreviously entered. «