“Place of Execution,” will air at 9 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 1 and 8, on Masterpiece Contemporary on PBS.

A 13-year-old girl vanishes from an English village, and the mystery deepens 40 years later when a journalist arrives to make a film about it.

What she finds shatters the lives of all involved. Juliet Stevenson (“Truly Madly Deeply,” “The Politician's Wife”) and Greg Wise (“Cranford”) star in this psychological thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Val McDermid.