Donna recommends:
A darker domain by Val McDermid
DI Karen Pirie, head of Fife’s cold case review team is intrigued when a young woman comes in to report the disappearance of her father twenty-five years before, during the miners’ strike. He was last seen in 1984 in the small mining village where he lived. At the time, everyone thought he’d joined a group of miners who had betrayed their friends and families by going off to ‘scab’ at a coal mine down in England, even though it seems to be out of character. In addition, new evidence has turned up in a kidnap case involving the daughter and grandson of the richest man in Scotland. Her bosses want her to concentrate on the kidnapping, but Karen is determined to look into the disappearance of the miner. This is a very cleverly told story with multi-layered plot-lines, locations and times. It’s full of atmosphere and social history as Val McDermid vividly shows the breakdown of a community and the suffering, grievances and bitterness which have cast long shadows. Intelligent and tightly plotted with twists upon twists and turns upon turns. An excellent read which kept me up.
