Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid

'Beneath the Bleeding' is the latest in Val McDermid's series of crime fiction novels featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill and Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. If you haven't read any of the novels, you may have seen some of them used as the basis for the television series 'The Wire in the Blood' starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris. It's not essential to have read the previous books but past incidents are referred to quite often through ...
...how the relationship between Tony and Carol has reached the strained point the reader finds in 'Beneath the bleeding'. If you haven't seen the television series or read any of the other novels, the basic premise is this: slightly odd but highly insightful psychologist Tony Hill works for the Home Office and when he's not assessing the patients in a secure hospital for convicted criminals with severe mental health problems, he helps the local police ...

fizzytom 24.04.2008 · Read full review
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Once again the books in the Supermarket decided I simply had to own them and a few weeks ago I came home with a double pack of Val McDermid books, this her newest publication and an older book. So never one to read things in order I picked this one off my to read pile first. We dive straight in to the plot with a patient at the Bradfield Moor Secure Hosptial deciding that now is the time to start taking people to Him, unfortunately this patient ...
...its calming effect has worn off. Tony after this is stuck in hospital himself, and Carol has been handed a case which is firmly in the media glare. A local football star has died and it looks like he has been poisoned. But there is no obvious motive for this man to be killed. Tony stuck in his hospital bed finds out that another man has been poisoned recently in the area, though it doesnt seem that there is a link he becomes convinced there is when ...

scuba_angel 04.05.2008 · Read full review
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