A Darker Domain
Val McDermid, creator of TV’s Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa – along with grisly evidence of a recent murder – cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail.She's already working a case from the same year. During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. He was presumed to have broken ranks and fled south with other 'scabs'… but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don't add up. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?The truth is stranger – and far darker – than fiction.
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VAL McDERMID
A
Darker Domain
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Meg and Tom McCall, my maternal grandparents. They showed me love, they taught me about community, and they never forgot the shame of standing in line at a soup kitchen to feed their bairns. Thanks to them, I grew up loving the sea, the woods and the work of Agatha Christie. No small debt.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Wednesday 23rd January 1985; Newton of Wemyss
Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes
Tuesday 19th June 2007; Edinburgh
Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes
Thursday 21st June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes
Monday 25th June 2007; Edinburgh
Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes
Thursday 28th June 2007; Edinburgh
Monday 18th June 2007; Campora, Tuscany, Italy.
Thursday 28th June 2007; Edinburgh
Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Friday 14th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss
Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Friday 14th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss
Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Saturday 15th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss
Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Wednesday 13th December 1978; Rotheswell Castle
Thursday 28th June 2007; Rotheswell Castle
Sunday 2nd December 1984; Wemyss Woods
Thursday 28th June 2007; Kirkcaldy
Friday 29th June 2007; Nottingham
Friday 29th June 2007; Rotheswell Castle
Thursday 30th November 1984; Dysart
Friday 29th June 2007; Glenrothes
Saturday 30th June 2007; East Wemyss
Monday 21st January 1985; Rotheswell Castle
Saturday 30th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Friday 23rd January 1987; Eilean Dearg
Saturday 30th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Wednesday 23rd January 1985; Rotheswell Castle
Saturday 30th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Sunday 1st July 2007; East Wemyss
Monday 2nd July 2007; Glenrothes
Monday 21st January 1985; Kirkcaldy
Monday 2nd July 2007; Peterhead
Wednesday 23rd January 1985; Newton of Wemyss
Monday 2nd July 2007; Peterhead
Tuesday 3rd July 2007; Glenrothes
Wednesday 4th July 2007; East Wemyss
Edinburgh Airport to Rotheswell Castle
Thursday 5th July 2007; Kirkcaldy
Sunday 14th August 1983; Newton of Wemyss
Celadoria, near Greve in Chianti
Thursday 26th April 2007; Villa Totti, Tuscany
Thursday 5th July 2007; Celadoria, near Greve in Chianti
Friday 6th July 2007; Kirkcaldy
Friday 13th July 2007; Glenrothes
Thursday 19th July 2007; Newton of Wemyss
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the authorâs imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
Copyright © Val McDermid 2008
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Wednesday 23rd January 1985; Newton of Wemyss
The voice is soft, like the darkness that encloses them. âYou ready?â
âAs ready as Iâll ever be.â
âYouâve told her what to do?â Words tumbling now, tripping over each other, a single stumble of sounds.
âDonât worry. She knows whatâs what. Sheâs under no illusions about whoâs going to carry the can if this goes wrong.â Sharp words, sharp tone. âSheâs not the one Iâm worrying about.â
âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âNothing. It means nothing, all right? Weâve no choices. Not here. Not now. We just do what has to be done.â The words have the hollow ring of bravado. Itâs anybodyâs guess what theyâre hiding. âCome on, letâs get it done with.â
