A review by syren1532
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid

5.0

One December night in 1963 fourteen year old Alison Carter goes missing from the isolated village in Derbyshire. Detective Inspector George Bennett is on the fast track in the force and is put in charge of the case. There are fears that Alison's disappearance is linked to two children, one from Manchester and the other from Lancashire, who have gone missing - victims of what we now know as the Moors Murderers. He is determined to find Alison, dead or alive, for the sake of her mother. Then suspicion falls on her stepfather who has been doing unspeakable things to Alison and after a trial he is sentenced to hang. Thirty five years later Catherine, a journalist, has managed to persuade George to speak about the case as she wants to write a book about the investigation. George finds working with her cathartic but suddenly he has a change of heart and writes to her to say new information has come to light and she can never publish the book. Why has George suddenly changed his mind and what could the new information be? Fantastic read from start to finish.