On a freezing December night in 1963, the worst kind of fear strikes the secluded Northumberland hamlet of Scardale. A 13-year-old girl has vanished without a trace. Against all their instincts, the tight-knit residents must ask the outside world for help.More than 40 years later, the dramatic events surrounding the girl’s disappearance and the hunt for her killer resurface when a high-flying TV journalist makes a documentary about the case. But what she finds will shatter the past – and the lives of everyone involved.Juliet Stevenson, Lee Ingleby and Greg Wise star in Place of Execution, a taut psychological thriller from Coastal Productions, makers of Wire in the Blood. Adapted by acclaimed scriptwriter Patrick Harbinson from the best-selling novel by Val McDermid, the three-part drama is set in the present day with flashbacks to the 1960s. It co-stars Tony Maudsley, Philip Jackson, Emma Cunniffe and Sheila Reid.