2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner

A Place of Execution
Val McDermid
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of S…
2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Shortlist

Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Michael Dibdin

Cold Is the Grave: A Novel of Suspense
Peter Robinson

Purple Cane Road
James Lee Burke
