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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Fever of the Bone: A Novel (Paperback)
'FEVER OF THE BONE' is the sixth in Val McDermid's series about DCI Carol Jordan and criminal psychologist Tony Hill. At the same time as I as reading this novel, I was viewing 'Wire In The Blood', a British series covering Val McDermid's books. McDermid's novels can be very realistic and gory, but the DVD is even more so. This was a story that will not be forgotten easily.
The main plot concerns the deaths of young teenagers in the town of Bradfield in northern England. DCI Jordan and her team are looking for people who stalked them by befriending them on a social networking website, RigMarole. Someone lures the young person to a meeting, and then kills them. The children's parents are bereft, and their love is palpable. We can put ourselves in their place very easily. DCI Jordan's cold case team discovers clues, and also follows the internet trail. DCI Jordan's new boss, James Burke, will not allow Tony Hill, who profiles the criminals, on the case. Instead, Burke tells Jordan to make do with one of the police force's own profilers. This profiler is not in the same league as Tony Hill is, and the clues run out very quickly. DCI Jordan finds she is on her own. Meanwhile Tony is sorting out his father's estate in Worcester. He did not know his father, and his death came as a shock. At the same time, Tony is contacted by the Worcester police to assist with the case of a killing of a young teenager. Tony takes on the case and spends the night in his father's old house. He discovers unexpected things about his own past. Many things that his mother, from whom he is estranged, has kept from him. DCI Jordan and Tony are involved with each other but can't admit their feelings openly. This aversion to discussion of feelings has been an on-going issue for the two of them. Tony discovers his profile case in Worcester is likely to be a crime committed by the same person who killed the two teenagers in Bradfield. DCI Jordan insists that Tony Hill be allowed back on this case. DCI Jordan and her team narrow down the list of suspects, and come to some amazing discoveries. Val McDermid keeps the story interesting with her use of high tech options in combination with the new social media. She seems to be way ahead of other authors in this area. The police procedurals are explicit and so well written. The story of Tony's discovery of his father is moving, and this may open the door to a more satisfying relationship with DCI Carol Jordan. Recommended. prisrob 09-16-10 The Mermaids Singing Beneath the Bleeding: A Novel
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
McDERMID IS AT THE TOP OF HER GAME,
This review is from: Fever of the Bone: A Novel (Paperback)
"It all comes down to blood in the end. Some wrongs you can get past....But certain kinds of betrayal need to be answered. And sometimes only blood will do." Those are just a few of the chilling words we read in Val McDermid's introduction to what this reader considers to be her best work to date. With FEVER OF THE BONE, the sixth Tony Hill novel, we meet a new chief constable, James Blake, who is evidently little impressed with Hill's contributions. Of course, this leaves Carol Jordan right in the middle. However, the middle might be the safest place to be as Carol and Tony are faced with their most demonic adversary yet. The first victim is young Jennifer Maidmont, so viciously attacked that her body was described as "sexually obliterated." There was no reason in the world for this vile act. Jennifer was a well cared for girl, pretty, sensible. Only later is it found that the killer is apparently choosing his victims at random after befriending them on the latest and most popular social networking site for teens. Not satisfied with one victim the psychopath continues his sick spree of murder and mutilation. Leave it to McDermid to carefully weave events together until a pattern emerges - compelling reading! There is, of course, as before the emotional relationship between Carol and tony to further hold readers spellbound. Val McDermid is a seasoned award winning author at the top of her game. Enjoy as she leaves us waiting for the seventh in this estimable series. - Gail Cooke
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A GREAT TONY HILL/CAROL JORDAN POLICE PROCEDURAL>>>,
By janebbooks (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fever of the Bone: A Novel (Paperback)
The sixth installment of Val McDermid's Tony Hill/Carol Jordan police procedural series FEVER OF THE BONE is a very exciting and page-turning hunt for the serial killer of fourteen-year olds who've been tortured and sexually mutiliated in northern England. All the victims are enticed through emails on RIGmarole, a British social network. Tony Hill is a famous psychologist and criminal profiler. Carol Jordan is, at the time of this story, DCI of the Murder Squad at the Bradfield Metropolitan Police.
McDermid is no slouch to modern police investigative methods. The hunt for Bradfield's latest serial killer involves excessive internet search (by a member of Jordan's squad, Stacey, who's hand-wired to her computer), an excursion into the world of artificial insemination (whose data sources are harder to get into than a Swiss bank account), and a geographical profile gadget called the Landsat Enchanced Thematic Map Planner. And quickly becoming an iconic trademark, the author introduces a few new and interesting characters into the story: James Blake, the new Chief Constable of the Bradfield Metropolitan Police Angela Forsythe, an svelte attorney, with a desirable Bradfield address - a converted 1920's cigarette factory Derek Baron, an illegal egg collector, who searches for valuable red kite eggs Alvin Ambrose, a young policeman with ambitions from the neighboring Worchester Police Department Warren Daly, a cyber-know who's a software security expert and owns his own company Tim Parker, the young and green profiler, chosen by Blake to assist the investigation..."cheap over good" and, of course, the teen victims: Jennifer, Seth, Daniel and Niall The author also more fully explores the personalities of her main protagonists. Tony Hill finds his father when he acquires his estate. The relationship between Hill and Jordan in solving crime has always been more successful than their great friendship. A British newspaper states that McDermid pushes our pleasure buttons with this duo. "Hill and Jordan's 'will they, won't they' is one of the most intriguing in the crime field..." Faithful readers from THE SINGING MERMAIDS forward will discover some nice dialogue about this relationship! It's about time but it's still not enough!
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