Val McDermid - Beneath the Bleeding

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Beneath the Bleeding

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Trick of the Dark
Fever of the Bone
A Darker Domain
Beneath the Bleeding
The Grave Tattoo
Stranded
The Torment of Others
Hostage to Murder
The Distant Echo
The Last Temptation
Killing The Shadows
A Place of Execution
Star Struck
The Writing on the Wall
The Wire In The Blood
Booked For Murder
Blue Genes
The Mermaids Singing
Clean Break
A Suitable Job For A Woman
Crackdown
Kick Back
Union Jack
Dead Beat
Final Edition
Common Murder
Report for Murder

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Beneath the Bleeding

Publishing date in the UK August 2007
Publishing date in the US summer 2009

HarperCollins 2007

Synopsis:
Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood, is back in a terrifying psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid. A city is mourning. Bradfield Victoria's star midfielder has been murdered, bizarrely poisoned in an apparently motiveless killing. Then a bomb blast rips through the football stadium. Dozens lie dead, many more injured. Is it a terrorist attack or a vendetta against the Vics? Or something even more sinister? As he lies in a hospital bed, psychologist and profiler Dr Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he manages to gather. But his customary ally, DCI Carol Jordan, is being pushed to the margins of the investigation by intelligence services determined to prove themselves indispensable. It wouldn't be so bad if Tony and Carol could agree about who they're looking for. But even their relationship has its dislocations and dark places. Beneath the Bleeding sets Tony and Carol at odds as they have never been before, forcing them to ask questions of themselves they would never have imagined possible.

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Reviews:

Guardian
'All the craft, panache and pace that we have come to expect from this outstanding writer... Vintage stuff: unplug the phone, lock the door and prepare to read in a sitting'

The Times
'Another intelligent and absorbing offering from one of crime fiction's most consistent performers'

Literary Review
'McDermid's usual ingredients of fear, revulsion, ingenuity and heroism... this book is all the more gripping because some holds are barred'

Glasgow Herald
'Peerless...one of the world's finest crime writers, McDermid is currently at the top of her game'

Daily Mirror
'McDermid is at the peak of her murderous craft... on the page, McDermid makes criminal profiler Hill every bit as engaging as [Robson Green]'