The Vanishing Point

[McDermid's] work is taut, psychologically complex and so gripping that it puts your life on hold."The Times (UK)Masterfully handled, and McDermid's ability to wrong-foot the reader remains second to none: highly recommended."The Guardian (UK)From one of the finest crime writers we have, The Vanishing Point kicks off with a nightmare scenariothe abduction of a child in an international airport. Stephanie Harker is in the screening booth at airport security, separated from Jimmy Higgins, the five-year-old boy she's in the process of adopting, when a man in a TSA uniform leads the boy away. The more Stephanie sounds the alarm, the more the security agents suspect her, and the further away the kidnapper gets. It soon becomes clear nothing in this situation is clear cut. For starters, Jimmy's birth mother was a celebrityliving in a world where conspiracy and obfuscation are excused for the sake of...