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The Retribution
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Val McDermid is a world-class crime writer whose books have sold millions worldwide. Now joining the Atlantic Monthly Press list for the first time, she is back with a chilling, high-velocity thriller featuring her immensely popular creations, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan.
Tony Hill has had a good run. He and detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil surpasses all others: Jacko Vance, ex-celebrity and sociopath whose brilliance and utter lack of remorse have never left Tony’s mind in the ten years since his imprisonment. Now Jacko has escaped from prisoneven more twisted and cunning than before, he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony and Carol for his years spent in prison.
Tony and Carol don’t know when Jacko will strike, or where. All they know is that Jacko will cause them to feel fear like they’ve never known. A chilling, utterly gripping tour de force, The Retribution is the ideal introduction or re-introduction to the world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. It is an unforgettable read.
The Mermaids Singing (Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries)
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This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.
The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim.
A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage--or the power--to stop it...
This sadistic, twisted yet intriguingly ingenious thriller garnered Val McDermid Britain's top crime-fiction award, the Gold Dagger, which only proves it's not as genteel a nation as we've been led to believe. The Mermaids Singing follows a killer who thrives on finding ever more inventive ways to seduce and torture sexually confused young men and records their death struggles digitally to market them as interactive home movies.
The Torment of Others
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THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD...
Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a sickening quartet of murders. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away, as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his crimes, which is precisely why this can't possibly be happening all over again--but it is.
SOOTHING, CAJOLING, PRAISING, COMMANDING...
One by one, mutilated corpses are turning up, each marked by the unmistakable calling card of the same warped killer. Still shattered in the wake of her own unbearable trauma, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan is called in to make sense of the implausible scenario, with criminal psychologist Tony Hill on hand to complicate matters at every turn.
AS IMPOSSIBLE TO SILENCE AS IT IS TO DEFY.
As a seasoned profiler, Tony is convinced that the new murders aren't the work of a copycat killer. Together, he and Carol prowl the mist-shrouded alleyways of tawdry Temple Fields, tracking a cunning serial killer who seems to be safely locked away yet somehow simultaneously on the loose, preparing to strike again...
Fever of the Bone: A Novel
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He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site. It is a case that is reawakening ghosts of Tony Hill’s past. And the longer it takes to uncover a motive and a maniac, the more innocent youth will die.
Dead Beat: A Kate Brannigan Mystery
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“Kate Brannigan is a breath of fresh air.”—Publishers Weekly
Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, who does for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago.
When Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing songwriter, a search that takes her into the seediest parts of Leeds, little does she realize that finding her is a prelude to murder.
Trick of the Dark
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"Val McDermid is one of the bright lights of the mystery field."—The Washington Post "She's the best we've got."—The New York Times Book Review Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the death of her daughter's husband. But as Charlie delves deeper into the case and steps back into the arcane world of Oxford colleges, she realizes that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye. Val McDermid has published twenty-four novels. An internationally best-selling author, her books have been translated into thirty languages. She has won more than a dozen major awards, most recently the 2010 Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement in the field of mysteries.
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A Darker Domain, By Val McDermid - Independent
Independent, UK - Feb 10, 5045
A Darker Domain, By Val McDermidIt's perhaps no great surprise that these two turn out to be intimately connected, but McDermid has plenty of other surprises up her sleeve. The story is cleverly told, cutting back and forth from Scotland to Italy, the present day to the 1980s;
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Authors converge on capital for Dublin Writers Festival - Businessandleadership.com - Sharing Intelligence
Businessandleadership.com - Sharing Intelligence, Ireland - May 23, 2009
Businessandleadership.com - Sharing IntelligenceAuthors converge on capital for Dublin Writers FestivalFor lovers of crime fiction, Kate Summerscale (recent winner of Book of the Year at the British Book Awards for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher) and crime writer Val McDermid explore the connections between true crime and crime fiction.
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Elementary, my dear Edinburgh - Scotsman
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Feb 10, 1552
Elementary, my dear EdinburghAlso pointing up Doyle's outsider credentials is the crime writer Val McDermid, who explores them in another Radio Scotland programme, In the Footsteps of Conan Doyle, today: "I think for Conan Doyle the seeds of his creativity were twofold.
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From The Librarian's Shelf… - Mason County News
Mason County News, TX - May 08, 2009
From The Librarian's Shelf…A Darker Domain by Val McDermid (F MCD). Mystery Fiction. “Detective Inspector Karen Pirie, newly appointed head of the Cold Case squad, has a hard time with desk work, so when a woman reports her father missing and last seen in 1984,
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Asda Contribute To Rise In Crime (reading) - Booktrade.info
Booktrade.info, UK - May 12, 2009
Asda Contribute To Rise In Crime (reading)Previous winners have included Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Allan Guthrie and also Stef Penney in 2008 for The Tenderness of Wolves. The winner takes home £3000 and a handmade Theakstons Old Peculier Cask made by the last cooper in England.
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