McDermid, Val
Place of Execution
Series: Film & Television
In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn't just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of '63, everyone knew it was a murder.
Catherine Heathcoat remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers.
Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennet to speak of the hunt for Alison, the tantalizing leads and harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story - plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations.
A stunning narrative of deception and illusion, A Place of Execution will stay with you long after its shocking denouement.
Place of Execution has also now been televised in the US by PBS on the 1st and 8th of November 2009.
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