Beneath the Bleeding (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 5)

Beneath the Bleeding (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 5)

by ValMcDermid (Author)

Synopsis

Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of Wire in the Blood, is back in a terrifying psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid. A city is mourning. Bradfield Victoria's star midfielder has been murdered, bizarrely poisoned in an apparently motiveless killing. Then a bomb blast rips through the football stadium. Dozens lie dead, many more injured. Is it a terrorist attack or a vendetta against the Vics? Or something even more sinister? As he lies in a hospital bed, psychologist and profiler Dr Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he manages to gather. But his customary ally, DCI Carol Jordan, is being pushed to the margins of the investigation by intelligence services determined to prove themselves indispensable. It wouldn't be so bad if Tony and Carol could agree about who they're looking for. But even their relationship has its dislocations and dark places. Beneath the Bleeding sets Tony and Carol at odds as they have never been before, forcing them to ask questions of themselves they would never have imagined possible.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 0007243278
ISBN 13: 9780007243273

Media Reviews

Australian praise for `Beneath the Bleeding':

`In a word: twisting' Herald Sun

`McDermid has delivered another winner' South Coast Register

`Grips like an anaconda' Adelaide Review

`Fast-paced and clever' Good Reading

`A fine cop drama... over almost too soon' Cairns Post

Praise for the Tony Hill thrillers:

'No one compares to McDermid.' Guardian

'One of McDermid's finest, which is saying a lot.' The Times

'This is McDermid on top form - pass the Valium.' Daily Mail

'Gripping, intelligent stuff.' Mail on Sunday

'Val McDermid is an intelligent, supremely talented novelist and with this latest tale, she is writing at the height of her power. Utterly compelling.' Glasgow Herald

'Serial killers, though meat and drink to crime writers, are thankfully rare. It is a tribute to the power of Val McDermid's imagination that she made this one seem so believable.'
Daily Telegraph

'Complex, combative and nuanced.' Express

'Val McDermid, as ever, is adept at engendering irresistible suspense, as the fearsome attractiveness of the ever more benighted and bloody predicament works its effect on readers.' Times Literary Supplement

`Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good.' Ruth Rendell

'Compelling and shocking.' Minette Walters

Author Bio

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.