
Val Mc Dermid creator of TV's Wire in the Blood mixes fact with fiction dealing with one of the most important & symbolic moments in recent history Twenty-five years ago the daughter of the richest man in Scotland & her baby son were kidnapped & held to ransom But Catriona Grant ended up dead & 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 & fled south with other 'scabs' but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don't add up Where did he really go? & is there a link to the Grant mystery? The truth is stranger
- & far darker
- than fiction