The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is at the height of her powers in this tense masterclass in psychological suspense.
The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose – and everything to kill for.
When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers – but the answers aren't coming, and trails are running cold.
Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties – and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? And what are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking for Tony and Carol – and the death toll keeps rising…
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.
Title: Beneath the Bleeding
Author: McDermid, Val
ISBN: 9780007243273
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Number of Pages: 416
Weight: 0.5399 kg
Australian praise for ‘Beneath the Bleeding’:
‘In a word: twisting’ Herald Sun
‘McDermid has delivered another winner' South Coast Register
‘Grips like an anaconda’ Adelaide Review
‘Fast-paced and clever’ Good Reading
‘A fine cop drama… over almost too soon’ Cairns Post
Praise for the Tony Hill thrillers:
'No one compares to McDermid.' Guardian
'One of McDermid's finest, which is saying a lot.' The Times
'This is McDermid on top form – pass the Valium.' Daily Mail
'Gripping, intelligent stuff.' Mail on Sunday
'Val McDermid is an intelligent, supremely talented novelist and with this latest tale, she is writing at the height of her power. Utterly compelling.' Glasgow Herald
'Serial killers, though meat and drink to crime writers, are thankfully rare. It is a tribute to the power of Val McDermid's imagination that she made this one seem so believable.'
Daily Telegraph
'Complex, combative and nuanced.' Express
'Val McDermid, as ever, is adept at engendering irresistible suspense, as the fearsome attractiveness of the ever more benighted and bloody predicament works its effect on readers.' Times Literary Supplement
‘Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good.’ Ruth Rendell
'Compelling and shocking.' Minette Walters