The superb new psychological thriller from `Queen of Crime` Val McDermid fuses her trademark plot twists and characterization with one of the most important events in recent UK history - the 1984 Miners` Strike. 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. 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. He was presumed to have broken ranks and fled south with other `scabs`! but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don`t add up. Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery?