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Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace -- until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation.--From amaz...

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Main Author: McDermid, Val
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:McDermid, Val. Karen Pirie novel ; 2.
Subjects:
Police > Scotland > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Kidnapping > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Fife (Scotland) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Scotland
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Summary:Fife, Scotland, 1985. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong and Grant is killed. Her son disappears without a trace -- until 2008, when a tourist in Tuscany stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that reopens the investigation.--From amazon.com.
Physical Description:355 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780061688980
0061688983
9780061688997
0061688991
Author Notes:Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

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