1 September 2002.
ISBN: 978-0-31229089-4 (HB)
While Tony Hill has taken an academic position in Scotland, DCI Carol Jordan is pursuing her career in the police force. When she applies for the job of European Liaison Officer with NCIS. She finds herself being interviewed for an undercover operation which leads her to seek help from Tony. They agree to meet for the first time in two years. After her call Tony stood motionless, he’d never really believed Carol was consigned to his past.
Carol’s undercover job takes her to Germany where she insinuates herself into the confidence of one Tadeusz Radecki, who is involved in drugs and illegal immigrants. Her contact is Petra Becker of the German CID. Petra is unofficially exchanging information with Marijke, an officer with the Dutch police. Both officers are convinced that a serial killer is operating in both of their countries targeting psychologists. What they need is a profiler. When Tony agrees to come to Germany, Carol is initially surprised, but Tony has his own reasons.
As with previous books in this series, we are privy to the mind of the serial killer, but in this book, not his identity. The background from which his psychosis stems stretch’s back to Nazi Germany, and the descriptions of his torment are harrowing and disturbing.
McDermid maintains the
tempo on the two separate cases through the book to a double gripping climax.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
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Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy on the East Coast of Scotland. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She worked on national newspapers in Glasgow and Manchester, ending up as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Val’s first book Report for Murder was published in 1984, In 1991 she gave up the day job and has been making my living by writing ever since. She was the Manchester Evening News crime reviewer for four years. She also writes occasional journalism and broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.
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