Books in the Detective Karen Pirie series

The second riveting crime novel in the Karen Pirie series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid.'A superb mystery' The TimesTwenty-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. During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?The truth is stranger - and far darker - than fiction.