A Darker Domain

A Darker Domain
Val McDermid

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.

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

Cover (#uede70e9a-f02e-591e-8c0c-fe9eecffba18)

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Wednesday 23rd January 1985; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_3aba105c-76c9-5b96-a462-e6aae968b811)

Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes (#ulink_92b685fc-8bf3-5bef-85b5-561cc546cc8f)

Tuesday 19th June 2007; Edinburgh (#ulink_c7a68745-7d3c-516a-9272-80ee179ff951)

Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes (#ulink_bce0f6fa-a372-5f37-9162-9ebad0b9281a)

Thursday 21st June 2007; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_9c7a70f5-00dd-5019-a5f1-3c04342ff20e)

Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes (#ulink_606b32aa-6883-51e3-9342-6156986c9dc7)

Monday 25th June 2007; Edinburgh (#ulink_4ea5e9d0-fbe8-5010-adc0-f8bab35a83c0)

Wednesday 27th June 2007; Glenrothes (#ulink_83d9c560-a09c-5fc9-bb8d-30fd644acc45)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Edinburgh (#ulink_f5dc4afc-f229-552f-8a83-43e30a878beb)

Monday 18th June 2007; Campora, Tuscany, Italy. (#ulink_dca50873-5424-592a-94d6-da6f41043d6e)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Edinburgh (#ulink_0d0d3d2a-332d-5d03-b798-3dda6b73e25b)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_1002fb2b-4af5-57ae-8696-058fad79dfaf)

Friday 14th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_fc0ac21b-50a5-531a-9672-3acc359959b2)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_99e108bd-8eda-56da-9d2a-48b13c3c7b66)

Friday 14th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_dd716f13-a167-5311-9aa7-0377e534b6de)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_fdb42784-9952-531f-92b2-47ae914ed88f)

Saturday 15th December 1984; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_76cad499-6858-507b-b17d-b7fb36d65c61)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Newton of Wemyss (#ulink_38492be4-08ae-5a09-9e7b-df930891c931)

Glenrothes (#ulink_b039476d-b26b-5503-89aa-e073924d9ce0)

Rotheswell Castle (#ulink_fd1893fd-3f60-5e2b-a9d9-2ae827bfed3c)

Wednesday 13th December 1978; Rotheswell Castle (#ulink_03a9dc27-eeec-5fe9-97c2-ae2bbf19b0fb)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Rotheswell Castle (#ulink_9ea994e6-aec6-581f-9849-cca41ddcf2cd)

Glenrothes (#ulink_993d1285-f204-5f6a-a150-41607419628a)

Kirkcaldy (#litres_trial_promo)

Sunday 2nd December 1984; Wemyss Woods (#litres_trial_promo)

Thursday 28th June 2007; Kirkcaldy (#litres_trial_promo)

Friday 29th June 2007; Nottingham (#litres_trial_promo)

Friday 14th December 1984 (#litres_trial_promo)

Friday 29th June 2007 (#litres_trial_promo)

Rotheswell Castle (#litres_trial_promo)

Saturday 19th January 1985 (#litres_trial_promo)

Dysart, Fife (#litres_trial_promo)

Friday 29th June 2007; Rotheswell Castle (#litres_trial_promo)

Nottingham (#litres_trial_promo)

Thursday 30th November 1984; Dysart (#litres_trial_promo)

Friday 29th June 2007; Glenrothes (#litres_trial_promo)

Saturday 30th June 2007; East Wemyss (#litres_trial_promo)