A Darker Domain

It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child.

So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold-case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn’t hold much hope of unravelling the infamous enigma.

She’s already investigating a case from the same year. At the height of the miners’ strike, Mick Prentice broke ranks to join ‘scab’ strike-breakers down south. But new evidence suggests Mick’s disappearance may not be as straightforward as that – and Karen finds herself drawn into a dark domain of secrets, betrayal and murder…

Past and present intertwine in a novel of taut psychological suspense that explores the intersection of desire and greed.