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

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A well written thriller which we get to see 2 cases investigated by Carol Jordan and her team. One case where a killer is stalking prostitutes in a red light district will not be to everyone's taste due to the graphic descriptions.

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It’s hard to know what to praise first here: the impeccable plotting or the sharp social relevance of the narrative (a McDermid speciality). Most of all, though, it’s the relationship between her two central characters that makes THE TORMENT OF OTHERS work so well. This is a real, adult relationship; complex, combative and nuanced. Stunning new psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, hero of The Wire in the Blood, from one of Britain’s bestselling novelists: ‘Val McDermid has become our leading pathologist of everyday evil... The subtle orchestration of terror is masterful’ Guardian Worse still, the characterization is surely shallow, only scratching the surface of many characters' issues. In the early chapters, the author introduces some interesting and complex problems faced by Dr Hill and Detective Carol. That being said, this is not a really satisfactory conclusion of these issues coming up as the story goes on. The introduction of an unnecessarily huge number of Carol's teammates also further reveal the writer's weakness in handling of detailing multiple characters. Most of them just become a very two-dimensional and flat characters given the limited time readers spent on them.As I continue my expedition through the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, I was happy to discover that Book 4 returned to the high-quality plotting of the first two novels after a slight dip in Book 3. Again the spotlight is slightly more on Carol; the first two books focused more on Tony, the third more on Carol. Love, sex, power, control, pain, torment. McDermid has seen to it that there is plenty of tension and drama throughout this fourth book of her Hill/Jordan series, which I am certain I will continue to read in the future. A well written crime story. I really love the character of Tony Hill, he is just so different. Love to have him as a friend. McDermid’s Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series tends to be on the dark and rather gruesome side of crime. Even well-written crime series that go on for more than a few books start to become a bit Midsomer Murders-esque. How many seriously damaged serial killers can one British city really contain? But then again, this is fiction and McDermid is a skilled and very successful writer. There must be enough people who can suspend belief and cope with the violence.

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Due to the rave review of "The Wire in the Blood" mini series and countless acclaims on McDermid's works among some of my favorite authors, I finally get the chance to give this book a try. aybe my expectations are too high after all as this book turns out to be one of the most flat and mediocre fictions I have read recently. And, of course, the telling. How often the action stops so we can be told things--things that aren't endearing, aren't flattering, aren't pleasant. And the constant explaining and info dumps destroy any tension that's building around the cases. The ending was not at all what I expected. Not even a little and it takes a lot for me to be totally surprised by a crime novel. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan – what an odd pair, but they complement each other as they work criminal investigations. Hill, a criminal psychologist and profiler, has recently quit his job in academia and has returned to treating patients serving sentences for violent crimes. After much soul searching, DCI Carol Jordan has taken a position leading a team in one of her old districts. This involves looking at cold cases, and in THE TORMENT OF OTHERS, Carol and Tony team up to work on two dead-end cases of boys who went missing without a trace. Just as Carol’s crew of investigators begin to dig into the files, a prostitute is found brutally murdered. In addition to dealing with those after effects, Carol and Tony have two (unrelated) major crimes to solve in this book.I know authors have to make things difficult for their characters but the way the police bundled a sting operation to catch the killer didn't ring true. Carl rapes Paula, Carol and her team hunt for Paula, and Tony suspects that a police officer is controlling Derek and Carl as only someone involved with this sting could have sabotaged it. Tony confronts Sergeant Jan Shields, who has been using mind manipulation to make others kill because she's a control freak.

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What about “the odd couple”? It is quite obvious that Carol and Tony work well together when they are teamed up to catch criminals. It is also pretty clear that they love each other. They question is, what, if anything, will they do about it? Onto the next book in the series after a little break. These books are so intense that one needs a break between them.Top criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable – this is not a copycat murder but something much stranger. While DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate and dangerous undercover police operation to trap the murderer, Hill heads towards a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered...

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

This entry into the series was as full of high-pitched suspense as the previous books but I think it also had more obvious flaws than previous books by McDermid. First, there’s a scenario given that ends up with a police officer (who is undercover) getting into extreme danger and I just didn’t believe that a trainer officer would behave that way in the situation (they let themselves be handcuffed because they think they are still under surveillance unaware the video/audio connection has been severed). Secondly, the reveal of the perpetrator of the prostitute murders and how they were able to copy the killing method is done somewhat suddenly (I thought) but maybe that’s because I didn’t figure out who it was before the police do. (In general I would say that is a strength of a mystery novel but for some reason it felt off to me but in hindsight a fair amount of clues that post facto appear obvious were given by the author.) Third, there really is no connection between the pedophile murder-kidnappings and the prostitute killers in the end so the reason they are both included is unclear, except maybe to put extra stress on Carol and Tony. Hill is easy to find, because he is now working part-time at Bradfield Moor. His new life as a professor at a university does not quite have the interesting moments he has become used to, such as treating Tom Storey, a hospital inmate that because of a brain tumor smothered his children. Storey didn't realize he might have a tumor, but instead blamed his left hand that was out of his control. Hill's diagnosis is Alien Hand Syndrome, a problem caused when the two halves of the brain do not communicate when the delicate corpus callosum is damaged. However, Jordan and Hill are soon to discover returning to Bradford means all kinds of uncontrolled alien and alienated hands are disturbing the peace of Bradford citizens. 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 Much of THE TORMENT OF OTHERS is centred around DCI Jordan’s activities to catch the person responsible for murdering two prostitutes. We know from the beginning who the actual killer is and that he is a low-intelligent “puppet” controlled by The Voice — a person controlling the puppet’s actions. Tony begins to suspect that there is someone manipulating the killer but he has no proof and when he finally pulls together a profile on the type of manipulation that he suspects is occurring, Carol, for once, rejects his reasoning.The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. This is a psychological thriller – and serial killer – that will keep you up at night. The only thing that disturbed me while I was reading was that the chapters were extra long, shifting from one scene to another without warning. I would have appreciated more section breaks. The second case involving the discovery of a paedophile and their apprehension was also bundled and again wasn't quite believable. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Torment_of_Others_Tony_Hill_namp_Carol_Jordan_4_-_Val_McDermid.pdf, The_Torment_of_Others_Tony_Hill_namp_Carol_Jordan_4_-_Val_McDermid.epub Dr. Tony Hill is in yet another professional setting, this time as a consulting psychologist at a local mental hospital in Bradfield. Of course, he is treating the 4-time convicted murderer and trying to discover his patient’s connection to the new crimes.