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The Wire in the Blood

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 2

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The Wire in the Blood

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another. Dr Tony Hill sets his team an exercise: they are given the details and asked to discover links between the cases. Only one officer comes up with a theory that is ridiculed….until one of their own is murdered.

For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter for personal revenge, and joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks a game where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed.

©1997 Val McDermid (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths

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"A deliciously gruesome serial killer thriller. Ms McDermid finds new ways to shock and revolt us." ( New York Times)
"Val McDermid is an accomplished storyteller, and this scary, fast-moving tale is engrossing." ( Daily Telegraph)
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Val Mcdermid has a serious talent for writing. She layers multiple mysteries within this novel and impeccably times their solutions into the unraveling of the grand plot... and does it better than just about anyone else today.

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan are two very complicated protagonists whose interaction and partnership and overwhelming sensitivity to each other bring a kind of reality to McDermid's stories that has you rooting for them at every turn. Their work together defines synergy better than a dictionary.

McDermid can look into the depths of human criminal depravity with a candor that brings an aching hollowness to your chest. Such a view into criminal thinking is shocking and unnervingly real, eliciting clammy sweat on your brow while you reach for the light at your bedside.

Listen to this series (there are four novels at this time...) and watch the BBC television shows (all of which carry the title of this novel, Wire in the Blood,) you will be amply rewarded.

Saul Reichlin was fantastic with the delivery of the story

Fantastic Series

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What drew me to listening to an audio of Wire in the Blood was my love of the TV series starring Robson Green. I recently read one of Val Dermid’s books, which made me want to download more in the series. I hated the narrator and it took me some time to focus on the story, Saul Reichlin voice is too old and perhaps a little like he is doing a stage play; his female voices are meek and irritating. The story line in the beginning is a little too detailed however builds so you don't want to stop listening, however both in this book and the one I read it in somewhat fizzles out. However on saying that worth a listen and I will be listening to more in the series, unfortunately they appear to all be narrated by Saul Reichlin.

What would the police force do without Tony Hill

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