The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid

You've heard the expression 'airport fiction' - well, this is really airport fiction. A child is kidnapped from his adoptive mother whilst they are transiting through an airport in the USA. The boy's natural mother, now dead, was a British TV reality star and his adoptive mother was her 'ghost' biographer and friend. But why was the boy kidnapped and by whom? At first, the adoptive mother comes under suspicion but, as she is questioned by the airport authorities and her story unfolds, a complicated history reveals layers of secrets and lies.

Val McDermid's Hill/Jordan books were adapted for television as the 'Wire in the Blood' series and she has written many more crime novels of repute. She has also been awarded the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award.

The Vanishing Point was published in 2012 and is the first of her novels that I've read, so I've discovered her rather late, although I enjoyed 'Wire in the Blood', as a TV series, very much. The Vanishing Point kept me turning the pages, and I didn't want to put it down. It's full of twists and turns although I thought the plot was too closely inspired by the real life story of a reality 'star', which took the gloss of it a bit for me.

What spoilt it - and really spoilt it - was the last chapter. I won't spoil it for you with a full disclosure but don't say you weren't warned!

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