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Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid

Description: ISBN 0007243286 / Author: Val McDermid / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Publisher: Harper / The terrifying new psychological thriller ... more

Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid ... featuring Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose -- and everything to kill for. When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers -- but the answers aren't coming, and trails are running cold. Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties -- and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? And what are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking for Tony and Carol -- and the death toll keeps rising!

Newest Review: ... stuck in hospital himself, and Carol has been handed a case which is firmly in the media glare. A local football star has ... more

... 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 he finds they both attended the same school. While Carol and her team are chasing down dead ends and generally treading water in the case, a bomb goes off in the stadium during a match at Bradfield Victoria. Initially having control of the case...more

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Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid: Under the blood? (481 words)
by - written on 08/05/08 (Very useful, 98 readings)
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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 has been cunning enough to avoid taking his medication and 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 ... Read the complete review

The return of Hill and Jordan (1052 words)
by - written on 27/04/08 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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'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 the course of this novel and do shed light on 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 the complete review