Title: At the Execution Ground - Val McDermid - book
Summary :
Scardale, a hamlet lost in Derbyshire, one of the wildest and most remote regions of England. Ten houses all belonging to the owner of the place. But, on this December day in 1963, an event shakes the small community: Alison Carter, the lord's daughter-in-law, has disappeared. Runaway, kidnapping, murder? The young inspector George Bennett encounters a wall of silence, Scardale remains silent. When clues emerge, skillfully orchestrated, it is him, the only outsider in the village, who is the one they accuse.
