A Darker Domain

Val McDermid, creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, mixes fact with fiction, dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history.Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom.

Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since.When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail.She's already working a case from the same year.

During the Miners' Strike of 1984, pit worker Mick Prentice vanished.

Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?The truth is stranger - and far darker - than fiction.