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Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid |
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08.05.08 (97 review reads) |
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Advantages: another good book from this author
Disadvantages: not her best,
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 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 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 Carol soon has to hand it over to the Counter Terrorism Control team. The CTC's methods go against her beleifs about policing, not to mention that she doesnt believe that the bombing was a terrorist attack at all.
As always with McDermid the story is realistically paced, though Tony takes some wild leaps in his deductions not being a psychologist I couldn't say if they are impossible connections to make.
With an interesting storyline which doesnt have an obvious conclusion and a setting which over the course of the books has become well known to the reader anyone who has liked Val McDermid will continue to enjoy her work with this one, and anyone new to her work will be able to pick this up and understand the story as a standalone as well as a part of the series. If as many people will have done you have watched Wire In the Blood then you will already know the characters and setting which for me means I cant imagine Tony and Carol as looking any different from the actors who play them in the series which I find lets me get lost in the story quickly.
At just under 500 pages long its a reasonable length book and when I bought my copy was part of a double pack with Mermaid Singing for under £5, but can now be found in all the usual places for less if you want a used copy.
Summary: Tony and Carol get mixed up in football
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