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Val McDermid
Paperback | Pages: 364 pages Rating: 3.97 | 17667 Users | 1114 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Mermaids Singing |
| ISBN: | 0312983603 (ISBN13: 9780312983604) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #1 |
| Characters: | Tony Hill, Carol Jordan |
| Literary Awards: | The Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction (1995), The CWA Dagger of Daggers Nominee (2005) |
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Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, which was a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Award. Now, in THE MERMAIDS SINGING, she continues her trademark ingenuity for suspense, and introduces criminal profiler Tony Hill, who has spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But now he's become one of the hunted...YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME...
This was the summer he discovered what he wanted—at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.
BUT THE NEXT TIME WOULD BE BETTER...
The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim.
AND PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage—or the power—to stop it...
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| Title | : | The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #1) |
| Author | : | Val McDermid |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 364 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2002 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published December 31st 1995) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 17667 Users | 1114 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #1)
Oh.! So this is how Tony Hill met Carol Jordan..! Having read the sequels in the series before reading the first ones,I was quite impressed by the chemistry the duo shared,and it seems a pleasant thing to read about their first meeting after a long while. There was a time when all I was interested in was psychological thrillers.. My days were divided between Patricia Cornwell and Keith Ablow and Val McDermid and Mo Hayder.. Day in and day out with serial killers.. Lots of coffee and chips..Number 1 in The Hill & Jordan series.Trying to marry the face of the author, which appears on the back sleeve, and the mind that came up with gruesomely terrifying story is hard to achieve.This is a truly horrific and compelling read.The police are faced with, what looks like, gay related hate killings. Problem is the killer is meticulous in his attention to detail. The corpses are washed clean before being dumped. There is not a single sign of any trace evidence. And the bodies keep coming.
4.5 stars Several years ago now, I read the T.S. Eliot poem from which this book takes its title, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and... well, I cannot really call myself a poetry fan. I liked it well enough, in that I finished it and didn't HATE it, but... I just don't have the patience for poetry. I dislike reading in verse, I am terrible at picking out symbolism and metaphor... Poetry and I just don't mesh. But... having reread the poem after finishing this book, I appreciate it so much
So with great anticipation I set off on my re-read of all Val McDermids novels and I began with The Mermaids Singing the first in the series featuring Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.In Bradfield the bodies of four men have been discoveredwith the police reluctant to link them Dr Tony Hill is already certain that a serial killer is operating in the area. When forward thinking ACC John Bradfield enlists Tonys help to profile the killer, he is teamed up with Carol Jordan and so begins their storyNot
There I was, plowing through this shifting-from-OK-to-mediocre-and-back little UK police procedural (don't judge me, it's how I relax, and P.D. James is apparently retiring) when all of a sudden, I was sandbagged by a plot that turned on hate for queerness. I don't know how this was quite possible, since I saw the Wire in the Blood series based on these books when it was first broadcast here, but apparently I either forgot this particular plot twist or repressed it out of dire hate. The villain,
After reading Beneath the Bleeding I knew I had to consume as many of these books as possible, so I continued onto The Mermaids Singing and finished it around 4 o' clock in the morning, having been so engrossed I completely lost all sense of time.McDermid has a strong grasp of human psychology and her characters are realistic, down-to-earth and with all the gritty, dirty bits that make up a human life. Each and every character seems to breathe from the page, whether they're in the book for two
Strap in kids....Things I said to myself and my husband while I was reading this;"wait, what?" (repeat 500x at various volume levels depending on how confused/horrified I was)."This book was published in 1995?""Hey Dan listen to this sentence 'Even without the animation of her blue eyes, he could see that she'd be classified as beautiful.' No really that's what it says. Stop laughing! This isn't funny!""Was Val McDermid in a coma when The Silence of the Lambs was written? Red Dragon just somehow
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