Darker Domain
The location is Fife, Scotland. Back in the eighties, a man by the name of Mick Prentice left his family. He was a miner. He joined the strikebreakers and was never seen or heard from again. Now twenty-three years later, someone is reporting Mick missing.
The year was 1985. Something terrible happened then. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby boy get kidnapped. It was all suppose to be simple. The ransom was to be paid and everyone would be safe. For whatever reason, something went wrong and Catriona is killed. No one ever found out what happened to her son. He went missing. The funny thing is that it is also twenty-three years later, when someone comes across some new evidence that causes this cold case to be reopened again.
Karen Pirie is in the midst of all of this. She plans to get to the bottom of just what really happened in both cases.
When I read the summary for this book, I picked up a copy to read right away. This is the type if book that is right up my alley. Unfortunately the summary read better then the story itself. From the very beginning I hated this book. I did stick with it through hoping it would get better but it never did for me. It seemed like there was too much description and explaining about what was going on with the characters. I mean some explaining is ok but I don’t need to know when Karen was going to the bathroom or needed to blow her nose. Ok, so maybe I am going over board a little but still you get my point. There was one time where I put the book down and ended up reading two more books before I picked Darker Domain up again. I have to say that I was disappointed and would not read another book by Val McDermid.
The year was 1985. Something terrible happened then. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby boy get kidnapped. It was all suppose to be simple. The ransom was to be paid and everyone would be safe. For whatever reason, something went wrong and Catriona is killed. No one ever found out what happened to her son. He went missing. The funny thing is that it is also twenty-three years later, when someone comes across some new evidence that causes this cold case to be reopened again.
Karen Pirie is in the midst of all of this. She plans to get to the bottom of just what really happened in both cases.
When I read the summary for this book, I picked up a copy to read right away. This is the type if book that is right up my alley. Unfortunately the summary read better then the story itself. From the very beginning I hated this book. I did stick with it through hoping it would get better but it never did for me. It seemed like there was too much description and explaining about what was going on with the characters. I mean some explaining is ok but I don’t need to know when Karen was going to the bathroom or needed to blow her nose. Ok, so maybe I am going over board a little but still you get my point. There was one time where I put the book down and ended up reading two more books before I picked Darker Domain up again. I have to say that I was disappointed and would not read another book by Val McDermid.
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