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    The Vanishing Point

    Written by Val McDermid

    Narrated by Antonia Beamish

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    A breathtakingly rich psychological thriller, The Vanishing Point is Val McDermid's most accomplished standalone novel to date, a work of haunting brilliance…

    Five-year-old Jimmy Higgins is brazenly snatched from the middle of a busy airport; but this is no ordinary kidnapping. Jimmy's mother is Scarlett, a reality TV star who, dying of cancer, entrusted the boy to her friend Stephanie Harker. Now Stephanie, reaching into the past to discover the motive behind the abduction, soon encounters a shocking tale of murder and conspiracy, and is faced by the most difficult choice of her life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateSep 13, 2012
    ISBN9781471211577
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    Val McDermid

    Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger the LA Times Book of the Year Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely brilliant. Kind of worked out the ending and wish it had had just a little epilogue at the end. All in all though I really enjoyed it!
    • 3/5
      Weird ending ruined the book for me. Good reader though