Val McDermid
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| Original Title: | The Last Temptation |
| ISBN: | 0312936915 (ISBN13: 9780312936914) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #3 |
| Characters: | Tony Hill, Carol Jordan |
| Setting: | Berlin(Germany) Bremen(Germany) Heidelberg(Germany) …more Leiden(Netherlands) Rotterdam(Netherlands) Hamburg(Germany) Schloss Hochenstein Seaford, England(United Kingdom) Amsterdam(Netherlands) …less |
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Coming to terms over her breakup with criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill, Chief Inspector Carol Jordan plunges into a risky undercover sting: track down a European drug trafficker and gain his confidence. But she's being tracked as well-by a serial killer whose psychosexual madness is born out of the darkest corners of history. In quiet isolation, Tony Hill is laying to rest the scars of his past-until he's recruited back into business on a case he can't ignore. An evil is striking uncomfortably close to home, and casting a killer shadow over the life of his long-time colleague and sometimes lover. As the danger closes in, and as Tony and Carol cross paths to navigate the terrain of a shattered human mind, they have no one left to trust but themselves-and fear that there's no place left to run as a killer promises to fulfill his most twisted dreams.Specify Out Of Books The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #3)
| Title | : | The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #3) |
| Author | : | Val McDermid |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2005 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published February 4th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller |
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Description: Coming to terms over her breakup with criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill, Chief Inspector Carol Jordan plunges into a risky undercover sting: track down a European drug trafficker and gain his confidence. But she's being tracked as well-by a serial killer whose psychosexual madness is born out of the darkest corners of history. In quiet isolation, Tony Hill is laying to rest the scars of his past-until he's recruited back into business on a case he can't ignore. An evil is strikingAt her best, McDermid can enthral me with her crime fiction, but I find her work very uneven and, while diverting enough, this novel was not amongst the best of hers I've read.Realism is never one of McDermid's core strengths, but when reading this novel, I didn't so much have to willingly suspend my disbelief as hang draw and quarter it. There's the usual problem that Tony's "incredible psychological insights" seem to amount to a couple of superficial deductions that a five-year-old could have
DCI Carol Jordan has an opportunity for a very special assignment, an undercover sting in Germany, totally outside her comfort zone and her country, so even the familiar is lost. The prime objective is to capture Tadeusz Radecki, a crime boss responsible for smuggling illegal aliens and drugs. A trip to the darkside, for sure. Coincidentally it seems, Carol is a doppelganger for Tadeuszs deceased lover Carolyn, which they hope will give her a bridge into this dangerous world and Tadeuszs
I didnt enjoy this book as much as the first two in the series. It seemed to take forever to get to the conclusions of the two cases. One case was a serial killer and the other involved the head of a crime syndicate. The two investigations were dissimilar, and yet the author did a great job bringing them together. The secondary police characters, Petra Becker in Germany and Marijke van Hasselt in Holland, were just as pushy as Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, and I liked the interaction among all
It has been 9 years since I have read a Tony Hill & Carol Jordan book by Val McDermid. I read and reviewed Beneath the Bleeding, the 5th book in the series and my friend John commented I can recommend "The Last Temptation" by V McDermid. I read this book back in 2003 whilst on a government paid excursion in the sun and was enthralled plus a little shocked by the graphic detail of the sexual mutilation of the bodies. So here I am in 2018 reading and reviewing a book written in 2002. What did
Sometimes when my synapses are raw and sore I need to relax into a soothing bath of Val McDermid or Rankin. Just the job this one, as usual the pages turning themselves while I relax.......but then, in the last third my brain started working again. McDermid's instinct was surely right not to turn the two stories in this novel into two separate books. She was wrong trying to squeeze them into one. While I look forward to exoskeletal plots in this genre, it becomes a bit much when the characters
Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan had been living separate lives for some time since their last case ended and they went their separate ways; Tony moved on the world of academia and Carol continued running the CID in a section of the East Yorkshire Police. However, since she has a strong interest in criminal intelligence, shes taken courses and has done tons of research in hopes of landing a new position in the area of intelligence and analysis. Now she finally has a real shot at moving into
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