DOUBT 3: The Madeleine McCann Mystery

DOUBT 3 is a grim reconnaissance of dirt and graveyards, a brutal interrogation of the gritty undercurrents of intention and motive. In its mission to find Madeleine, or some substantive evidence of her, the third narrative in this bestselling true crime series burrows down through obvious stratum into the subterranean, stinking caverns underlying this case. “If Madeleine is invisible then we must resume our search for her not in the visible but in the invisible world…” As such DOUBT 3 interrogates: - The Paraiso Restaurante CCTV footage of May 3rd - Carol Tranmer’s Police Interview - Goncalo Amaral’s coffin theory - Possible dates remains were moved - Madeleine’s final resting place Through atoms and germs, odours and intuitions, sulphur and smoke, Van der Leek and Wilson attempt to find a thread, a few crumbs or a particle to piece together a long-forgotten form into someone we knew once upon a time. “Make no mistake, on the other side of all the nonsense, outside of time, some other version of events floats through the ether. That is what we want to get to. Not via a court room, that ship has sailed. Is the true story out of reach or are we up to the task of recognizing and grasping its threads?” The author suggests that besides Madeleine, something else – something that belongs to all of us – also vanished from the Algarve on that day in early May, 2007. The author navigates seaside sewers, recent interviews and long dead history in an effort to rescue the one, if not the other…