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Read the award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid at the top of her game in these three nail-biting crime thrillers.

A PLACE OF EXECUTION: In 1963, Alison Carter vanished in the Peak District. Journalist Catherine Heathcote remembers the case from her childhood, and interviews DI George Bennett for his recollection of the hunt for Alison. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to pull the story - plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and explosive revelations…

THE DISTANT ECHO: Four drunken students find the body of a woman in a snow-covered cemetery. Twenty-five years on, a 'cold case' review of the murder still has them as the main suspects. But when two of them die in suspicious circumstances, the only way for the remaining two to save themselves is to find out who the real murderer is…

THE GRAVE TATTOO: Scholar Jane Gresham believes that the poet William Wordsworth may have sheltered Fletcher Christian, the mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, and turned his tale into an epic poem - which has since disappeared. But the centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. And it isn't just the truth that is waiting to be discovered, but a bounty worth millions… Praise for A PLACE OF EXECUTION:

'Beautifully written … It may be that McDermid will write better novels than this, but I do not see how' Daily Telegraph

'Compelling and atmospheric … a tour de force' Minette Walters

Praise for THE DISTANT ECHO:

'A classic … McDermid pulls out all the stops. Impeccable' Guardian

Praise for THE GRAVE TATTOO:

'Grips from the first page until the final deeply satisfying sentence' Express

'Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha Christie … chilling' Observer Val McDermid is the author of twenty-four bestselling novels, which have been translated into thirty languages, and have sold over ten million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009 and was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2010. She has a son and a dog, and lives in the north of England.