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A Darker Domain

Val McDermid

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Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.

Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.

Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 February 2009.

McDermid produces yet another gripping, gritty psychological thriller, moving back and forth between the miners strike of the mid 80’s to present day. Two cases with two determined women trying to solve them, it will keep you guessing until the end.

Synopsis

A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child. So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn't hold much hope of unravelling the infamous enigma. She's already investigating a case from the same year. At the height of the miner's strike, Mick Prentice broke ranks to join 'scab' strike-breakers down south. But new evidence suggests Mick's disappearance may not be as straightforward as that - and Karen's investigations take her into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and the ultimate violence… Past and present intertwine in a novel of taut psychological suspense that explores the intersection of desire and greed.

Reviews

Praise for Val McDermid's psychological thrillers:

'Absorbing modern mystery… McDermid's mix of historical and literary clues with modern detection is handled with panache' The Times

'One of the world's leading mystery writers…Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha Christie, if you will… a great read' Observer

'A cleverly plotted thriller. It should gain her a crowd of new fans' Guardian

About the Author

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.

In 2010 she received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. Margaret Murphy, then chair of the CWA, said: "The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger award acknowledges the work of an author who has made an outstanding contribution to the genre. Val McDermid is a worthy winner whose work has entertained and thrilled millions of readers as well as many more who have enjoyed the TV adaptations her books have inspired."

McDermid has achieved major success with her series of books featuring criminal profiler, Dr Tony Hill. The first book in the series, The Mermaids Singing, won the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, while the second, The Wire in the Blood, lends its name to the highly acclaimed television series featuring Robson Green as Tony Hill. The Last Temptation was a Top Ten bestseller. The Torment of Others came out in paperback in 2005. Beneath the Bleeding came out in summer 2007 and went straight into the Top Ten.

A Place of Execution was awarded the LA Times Book of the Year Award, and has gone onto become the most nominated award-winning thriller in the USA since 2000. Killing the Shadows received critical acclaim on its release in 2000. 'The Grave Tattoo' was published in 2006 in hardback and stayed in the Top Ten for over a month. 'A Darker Domain' is due for publication in 2008.

A Place of Execution was adapted into a successful ITV drama with Juliet Stephenson. Val McDermid is also a regular contributor to Radio 4, where she recently presented the series From Ban to Booker and was recently awarded Stonewall's Writer of the Year.

McDermid has also written six crime novels featuring Manchester PI Kate Brannigan, and the last of these, Star Struck, won the Grand Prix des Romans d'Adventure in France. A further series of novels featured journalist-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, with the latest of these, Hostage to Murder, published in November 2003.