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Ein Ort für die Ewigkeit (1999)

von Val McDermid

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Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. A Greek tragedy in modern England, A PLACE OF EXECUTION is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.… (mehr)
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i really didn't like this book, and won't read any more of this writer. admittedly, the resolution of the mystery was ingenious (and in truth the author wrote it from a story that someone else told her, so no wonder it never really felt like hers) but i solved it at the beginning of the book, which i try never to do. meanwhile the writing was stiff, and so were the characters too. others may of course have enjoyed it thoroughly, and i wish them well. ( )
  macha | Feb 7, 2024 |
This is a standalone by Val McDermid, set in the Peak District of England. Most of the action takes place during 1963, bracketed by subsequent events in 1998. I'm a McDermid fan in general, but this one stood out for me especially because of the way she describes Derbyshire and the world in general in 1963. ( )
  BarbKBooks | Aug 15, 2022 |
A beautifully crafted police procedural within a highly entertaining cast of characters. Val McDermid can not only hold the reader's attention with an edge of the seat thriller but expertly disguises the real human story behind the killing of Alison Carter until the closing chapters. Her writing style is nothing short of brilliant showing once again why she has few equal to her as a crime writer. ( )
  runner56 | Sep 5, 2021 |
Well enough written and paced, with the awkward sentence or so, the entire story depends on the unlikely setup and is so full of detail that the characters, which seem to offer promise, really aren't given room to be more than ciphers with a stereotype as a label - upright police officer with supportive new wife, smarmy news reporter, old knowing village woman, nasty piece of work villain, self promoting police superior. The police sergeant Thomas almost comes through, but it's not enough.

This meta mystery is so clever it cuts itself. Lest you not notice, Book II, Part II is located before Book II Part I and that placement is all that gives Book II Part I its tension. Also a reference is made to The Wicker Man to rub in the rubes using the police to their own ends aspect. ( )
  quondame | Jun 6, 2019 |
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You shall be taken to the place from whence you came, and thence to a place of lawful execution, and there you shall be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and afterwards your body shall be buried in a common grave within the precints of the prison wherein you were last confined before your execution; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
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Wie Alison Carter wurde ich im Jahr 1950 in Derbyshire geboren.
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Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down. A Greek tragedy in modern England, A PLACE OF EXECUTION is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.

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Düster der Ort und verschlossen die Menschen von Scardale, einem 30-Seelen-Dorf, wo an einem rauhen Dezembertag ein Mädchen verschwindet. Es gibt einen Mörder, aber keine Leiche, es gibt Gerechtigkeit, aber keine Wahrheit.

In brillanten Spannungsbögen zeichnet Val McDermid nicht nur das Psychogramm eines leidenschaftlichen Kommissars, sondern eines ganzen Dorfes, das – so scheint es – den Mantel des Schweigens über ein entsetzliches Verbrechen gelegt hat.
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