- Fiction, Police, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Kidnapping
Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of Scotland's richest man and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate is still unknown.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Val McDermid, Matthieu Farcot
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 391
- Publisher
- Luitingh Sijthoff, harpercollins, FLAMMARION
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English, German, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780061761867
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