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McDermid: A Darker Domain

McDermid: A Darker Domain

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 miners’ strike, Mike 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 finds herself drawn into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and murder…