by Val McDermid
This is the second in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, and also the book that the tv show took its name from. We see Tony in charge of training young officers in a profiling task force and Carol has also started a new job. The two haven't seen each other since the events that unfolded at the end...
Meh. I'm really not getting any warm fuzzies for this series. Nor any reaction really. I was hoping that the second book in the series would be more interesting and getting away from the scene setting that took up so much of The Mermaids Singing, but no...a large part of the book is still about wo...
From quite close to the beginning you know who dunnit, it's the trying to pin the crime on the perpetrator that's the story in this one. He's so completely immoral and cunning and I really did root for the good guys to succeed but could also see where they encountered pitfalls that really got in th...
It's a quiet sort of book, and one of the most gripping crime novels I've ever read. I managed to put it down, yes, but I didn't manage to pick up anything else until I was done.It's just occurring to me that in many ways it reminded me of The Wire. On a smaller scale, with a smaller cast, but the...
Thought the plot of this book was particularly interesting given that of the *first* book - in Mermaids Singing, Dr. Tony Hill is in the process of forming a national task force for the investigation of serial criminals; profilers, like those in the U.S. In TWitB, the task force is newly created an...
This is one of the best books I've read in a while. McDermid keeps the suspense going to the point that I had to, toward the end, stop reading because it was making my hands sweat and increasing my heart rate. Then I stayed up later that night to finish it. There were a couple real surprises in he...
I truly feel that Val McDermid is one of the most under-rated and under recognized authors today. I have read approximately 20 of her books and each one gets better. I saw the movie version of this book and the book is 100 times better, which is saying alot because the movie was great. The book goes...
From quite close to the beginning you know who dunnit, it's the trying to pin the crime on the perpetrator that's the story in this one. He's so completely immoral and cunning and I really did root for the good guys to succeed but could also see where they encountered pitfalls that really got in th...
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