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A review by charonlrdraws
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
1.0
Only read two books by Val McDermid so far one was good this one sucked oh and there was meant to be a plot somewhere! Where the fuck was the plot! Because on the half way point everything else got thrown out of the window and there was this brief thing about a trial going on blah, blah, blah journal entries at the end with some random years on it why did I waste my time with this book!
The premise sounded good and well me being me wanting to read more crime books wanted to check this book out oh boy do I feel cheated on this book now! I will try out the current crime series by this author maybe that might make the bitter taste in my mouth that this book left a bit more tolerable...I have a love/hate with this author's books which is quite annoying and I've only read two! I am having a great start with Val McDermid aren't I!
A summery for A Place of Execution:
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years.
Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.
The premise sounded good and well me being me wanting to read more crime books wanted to check this book out oh boy do I feel cheated on this book now! I will try out the current crime series by this author maybe that might make the bitter taste in my mouth that this book left a bit more tolerable...I have a love/hate with this author's books which is quite annoying and I've only read two! I am having a great start with Val McDermid aren't I!
A summery for A Place of Execution:
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years.
Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.