A Place of Execution – Val McDermid

Mae Catherine Heathcote yn cofio diflaniad Alison Carter yn ’63 ym mhentref tawel Scardale yn dda. Nawr fel newyddiadurwr, mae hi’n perswadio’r ditectif oedd wrth y llyw i siarad am yr ymchwiliad, ond pan ddaw tystiolaeth newydd i’r amlwg– bydd Catherine yn darganfod ei hun mewn byd o gyfrinachau a datguddiadau.

In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder.

Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers. Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison, the tantalizing leads and harrowing dead ends.

But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story – plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations.