Beneath the Bleeding - Val Mcdermid (Paperback)
Description
The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is at the height of her powers in this tense masterclass in psychological suspense.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9780007344697
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 4 Mar 2010
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Val McDermid
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 496
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 31mm (356g)
Annotation
- Recovering in the hospital after the city of Bradfield's star soccer player is poisoned and several are killed in a stadium explosion, Dr. Tony Hill tries to make sense of the case, which is complicated by the fact that his usual ally, DCI Carol Jordan, has been pushed to the margins of the investigation by intelligence services.
- The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is at the height of her powers in this tense masterclass in psychological suspense.
Summary
The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill,
hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is
at the height of her powers in this tense masterclass in
psychological suspense.
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...
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...
Fiction
- General Subject
- Crime/Thrillers
- BISAC Subject 1
- Fiction / Thrillers
- BISAC Subject 2
- Fiction / Media Tie-In
- BISAC Subject 3
- Fiction / Sports
- BISAC Subject 5
- Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
- BIC Classification 1
- Crime & mystery
- BIC Classification 2
- Thriller / suspense
- Dewey Classification
- 823.914
- Readership
- General (US: Trade)
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 years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday
tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between
Cheshire and Northumberland. Her novels have won international
acclaim and a number of prestigious awards, including the Gold
Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Anthony Award for best
novel, and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. Her
thriller series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill has been
adapted into the much-loved TV series Wire in the Blood.
Review Quotes
`McDermid is at the peak of her murderous craft' Mirror
'The Queen of serial killers in this country keeps her end up.... few can scoop Val on throat-clutching narrative... Marvellous' Daily Mail
`All the craft, panache and pace that we have come to expect from this outstanding writer... Vintage stuff: unplug the phone, lock the door and prepare to read in a sitting' Guardian
`Peerless ... One of the world's finest crime writers, McDermid is currently at the top of her game' Glasgow Herald
`McDermid's writing gets better and better' Spectator
'The Queen of serial killers in this country keeps her end up.... few can scoop Val on throat-clutching narrative... Marvellous' Daily Mail
`All the craft, panache and pace that we have come to expect from this outstanding writer... Vintage stuff: unplug the phone, lock the door and prepare to read in a sitting' Guardian
`Peerless ... One of the world's finest crime writers, McDermid is currently at the top of her game' Glasgow Herald
`McDermid's writing gets better and better' Spectator
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