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Title: The Last Temptation by Val McDermid ISBN: 0-312-98631-9 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: terrible choice for reader
Comment: The book is by a British woman, the characters are mainly British, and yet the publishers chose an American man to read it! Wow! That choice totally ruins the book. His attempt at an English accent is laughable. I couldn't finish it and I usually love Val McDermid's work. Guess I'll have to get a paper copy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Smashing success
Comment: Smashing success. Carol Jordan entices Tony Hill to join with Dutch and German Detectives to try and capture a serial killer that drowns his victims then scalps their pubic hair for his collection. Not one to avoid the grisly, McDermid provides plenty in this fast paced thriller-mystery that follows two stories, Jordan's attempt to con a notorious drug and human smuggling crime boss in Germany and the serial killer who moves between Holland And Germany with ease to dispatch his victims.
Jordan and Hill seem to have overcome their personal problems that kept them apart in previous mysteries but a vicious twist at the end portends a troubled future for them.
Excellent plotting and character development. A joy to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: McDermid's latest suspense novel is a sure fire winner!
Comment: The sophistication and talent that a writer needs to maintain two plot lines and ferry seven characters through a full-length novel, may be a challenge to author Val McDermid, but she does it with style, believability and panache in THE LAST TEMPTATION.
A serial killer is targeting psychologists in Germany and Holland. When an old friend is murdered, former British profiler Tony Hill reluctantly gets back into the game. His job is to outsmart the killer and prevent any more brutal "mutilation" deaths.
At the same time, Carol Jordan, a very ambitious DCI and the love of Hill's life, is offered any position she wants if she does her superiors a "favor" --- seduce Tadeusz Radecki into a sting that will expose his drug, arms and people smuggling businesses. This seems to be an offer she can't refuse. But, by the time she finds out that she's been set up, it's too late to back out. She feels betrayed and used when she discovers that she is the "twin" image of Katerina Basler, Tadisck's lover who was killed in a mysterious hit and run accident.
Hill's murder investigation eventually brings him to Berlin. And, although he must travel to several European cities, he takes a small apartment in the same building as Jordan. Both of them work with local cops, Jordan with Petra Becker in Germany, and Hill with Brigadier Marijke van Hasselt from Holland.
THE LAST TEMPTATION is an aggregate of pristine prose, complicated plot twists, roller coaster pacing, intelligent characters, and very interesting subject matter. McDermid writes with finesse and her extraordinary storytelling prowess sets her new book apart from the ordinary. Wow! This book is a sure fire winner.
--- Reviewed by Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum
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Title: The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid ISBN: 0312983603 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid ISBN: 0312983654 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Distant Echo by Val McDermid ISBN: 0312301995 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid ISBN: 0312979533 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid ISBN: 0312983387 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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