Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. When union leader ... more
Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the rea...
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Advantages: Hard back and paper back. Very good read. Disadvantages: the need to ensure that the books in a series are read in chronological order.
'friends'. Reading a new instalment is enguaging with a lost lost pal.
She also writes stand alone books such as 'A Suitable Job For A Woman', a non fiction, which focus is on female Private Investigators; 'Killing the Shadows', a tale of a murderer on the hunt for crime writers; 'The Distant Echo', a story of murder, rape and revenge; and 'The Grave Tattoo', an exciting story that links a present day murder to the mutiny on the Bounty.
One of my favorite books written by McDermid, is 'A Place of Execution'. A book that explores the hidious murders performed by the infamous Hindly/Brady, while juxtaposing a totally different murder that has an unexpected outcome.
ValMcDermid's writing is contempory, enguaging and suprising until the end. Any of her stories that you choose to read will make you stay up late just tofinish the next ...
aquarius2005 26.04.2008
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Advantages: A thriller as a thriller should be - thrilling!!! Disadvantages: Some sadistic sexualnature in the book, but it is fitting with the story
THE TORMENT OF OTHERS
VAL Mcdermid
For those of you who don't know, ValMcDermid is the creator of the popular TV series called 'Wire in the Blood 'with actor Robson Green.
This book is one of her Tony Hill books; he is a criminal psychologist and profiler who constantly finds himself helping the police to solve monstrous, heartless and often sexually motivated killings.
The 'Torment of Others' isn't the first of the Tony Hill novels, and it clearly follows some major events for the characters, so maybe it would be best to read the series in order if possible. Having said that this is the first of the books that I have read and it proved that it certainly can be read on its own as it doesn't take long to work out the relationships between the characters.
The story takes place in the fictional City ...
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Product details
EAN
9780007191772
Type
Fiction
Genre
Crime Books
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Title
Union Jack
Author
Val McDermid
ISBN
0007191774
Manufacturer's product description
Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends -- and enemies including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead having catapulted out of Lindsay's tenth-floor hotel room she is taken in for questioning by the police. Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer Lindsay searches among hundreds of unruly union delegates for a murderer who may have struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail corruption and abuse of power all brought to the boil by her investigation.
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