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Extract: Trick Of The Dark by Val McDermid
My mother disappeared when I was sixteen. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. When I say that out loud, people look at me out of the corners of their eyes, as if I’ve transgressed some fundamental taboo. But it’s the truth. I’m not hiding some complicated grief reaction. My mother disappeared when I was sixteen.The guards had walked away from the prison leaving the door …

Published Sep 11, 2010.
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