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.
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.
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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, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. 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.
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A Darker Domain was written by Val McDermid and published by HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
A Darker Domain has 392 pages
Yes it is part of Detective Karen Pirie series
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