Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
If you have not read Val McDermid you may have caught the ITV series of The Wire in the Blood, starring Dr Tony Hill. This features him too in another complex, baffling psychological thriller which is far better than the TV. It’s unexpected twists, its growing suspense, its intelligence and dark compulsion can never truly be captured on the small screen. You’ve got to read it.
Comparisons: Karin Slaughter, Mo Hayder, Tess Gerritsen.
Similar this month: Hilary Bonner, Kathy Reichs.
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For some, there is nothing so sweet, so thrilling, as the torment of others …
A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one Derek Tyler. But Tyler's been locked up in a mental institution for two years, barely speaking a word - except to say that 'the Voice' told him to do it.
Top criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable - this is not a copycat murder but something much stranger. While DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate and dangerous undercover police operation to trap the murderer, Hill heads towards a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered...
The Torment of Others features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Torment of Others is available in Paperback
The Torment of Others was written by Val McDermid and published by Harpercollins Publishers
The Torment of Others has 466 pages
Yes it is part of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series
£8.99
