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Wire in the Blood
Synopsis Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill, hero of the hugely successful television series "The Wire in the Blood". Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind. Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer comes up with a concrete theory - a theory that is ridiculed by the group...until one of their number is murdered and mutilated. For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter of personal revenge, and joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game where hunter and hunted can be all too easily reversed. ReviewThis is a crime novel, but dealt with in a very different way, from the perspective of a psychological profiler. The way that this story is put together is fantastic and how the mind of Val McDermid has worked to produce this book is really astonishing, especially the way she has been able to enter the very warped and criminally devient mind - which to me is very frightening. The part that frightened me the most is that a new rooky profiler would go behind the backs of her trainer - because people had laughed at her and her perception of an old case put in front of them on training course. Her find was so fast that she latched on to what no one else has spotted, a connection that could have stopped the psychopath in his tracks many years before! Brilliant writing , Fantastic Plot and very well written. ![]()
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