The Torment of Others (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan): Book 4

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Several years after Derek Tyler was incarcerated for slaughtering several prostitutes, another lady of the night is found dead under similar modus operandi being vaginally penetrated using a dildo covered in razor blades.

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Her thriller series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill has been adapted into the much-loved TV series Wire in the Blood. She is leading the team investigating these prostitute murders and decides to bring in her old friend, psychiatrist Tony Hill to profile the killer.Best read by series regulars (as it furthers some of the already-known issues from earlier books), the story allows the characters to grow in ways that I enjoy. And the nature of the crimes (sexual homicide) are far outside what most folks would want to read about.

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Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. McDermid’s Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series tends to be on the dark and rather gruesome side of crime. Back in Bradfield after her traumatic experiences in Berlin, Carol is surprised to find Tony has followed her there to take up a post in the local secure mental hospital. I had several suspects in mind, thanks to McDermid’s red herrings, but the actual culprit came as a shock to me. Her first books with journalist Lindsay Gordon as heroine gave hints of the talent that was to mature so impressively--and the subsequent series with the resourceful private eye Kate Brannigan demonstrated a sharper eye for the harder edges of society.Tony Hill and no-nonsense detective Carol Jordan draw on their pasts and mix personal with professional as they hunt down notorious criminal psychopaths. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award.