A Place of Execution 4 of 6. 45 years later, a journalist's attempts to make a documentary on the case threaten to shatter the lives of all involved. No_Favorite. Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. EMBED. Synopsis: Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. A Place of Execution 6 of 6. One of the most acclaimed novels of suspense of our time, A Place of Execution won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was hailed by critics as "a marvel from start to finish" ( The Wall Street Journal) and "a modern masterpiece" ( The Denver Post). A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's 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. share. A Place of Execution 1 of 6. About Val McDermid. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! 'A Place of Execution is a wake-up call to crime writers everywhere. A Place of Execution is winner of the 2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel. A Place of Execution 3 of 6. flag. There were three execution sites: one used by the Nazis in the second world war, one used between 1954 and 1989, mostly for criminal offences (the last political execution having taken place in 1960). EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Place of Execution. A place of execution Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Executions used to be held publicly in Campo de’ Fiori. A Place of Execution Val McDermid, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-312-26632-5. Campo de’ Fiori translated from Italian, means “field of flowers”. A Place of Execution Campo de’ Fiori is a rectangular square near Piazza Navona. A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's 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. The name was first given during the Middle Ages when the area was actually a meadow. More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. A young girl mysteriously vanishes from her English village home. A Place of Execution is a crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999.The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by The New York Times as one of the most notable books of the year. With Lee Ingleby, Emma Cunniffe, Philip Jackson, Juliet Stevenson. The third site, and our final destination on the tour, was where most of the political executions took place between 1948 and 1954. 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