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Val McDermid (Author)
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Publication Date: 3 Feb 2003

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s Wire in the Blood, written by the award-winning Val McDermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller.

A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe.

Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home…

Meanwhile, his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the only person she can call on for help.

Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities, Tony and Carol are thrown together in a world of violence and corruption, where they have no one to trust but each other.

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; New edition edition (3 Feb 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007796412
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006514190
  • ASIN: 0006514197
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.1 x 3.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 486,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Val McDermid just gets better and better. The Last Temptation is intelligent about undercover police work and psychological profiling as well as moving on the human cost to the people who have to do society's dirty work.

We are back with profiler Tony Hills and super-competent cop Carol, who we met in The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood. The couple's past experiences have created a bond between them as well as a certain inability to bear the sight of each other. They are brought back into co-operation by the needs of the job in its European dimension. Tony is persuaded to help track a European killer who drowns and mutilates psychologists, while Carol is working undercover to trap a drug trafficker whose dead lover spookily resembles her.

As always, McDermid writes brilliant criminals. She adds that deadening of sympathy which makes horror possible. Both aristocratic gangster Tadeusz and vengeful psychotic Mann have their reasons for being who they are, doing what they do. McDermid makes us care that her detectives succeed and survive just that little bit more than we care for her villains to escape. She writes excellent thrillers simply because she has a journalist's eye for both sides of each case. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'Val McDermid is one of the few crime authors who can be convincing when it comes to 'writing tough' yet retain a powerful emotional insight… McDermid is doing something quite extraordinary with the crime fiction suspense thriller' Scotland on Sunday

'This is a hugely ambitious novel, involving three police forces, of which the British seem to be the most Machiavellian' Express

Praise for Val McDermid:

'Val McDermid is a roaring Ferrari amid the crowded traffic on the crime-writing road' Independent

'McDermid has become our leading pathologist of everyday evil… The subtle orchestration of terror is masterful' Guardian

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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hunters Become The Prey 2 Feb 2002
By campobelli@aol.com
Format:Hardcover
We are all Europeans now, but that does not stop cross boundary suspicion among police forces when a serial killer is using the waterways of Germany and the Netherlands to target his victims. At the same time Carol Jordan is cajoled into going underground to trap a particularly nasty trafficker in drugs and illegal immegrants, with the carrot of a top European job if she succeeds.

How these two disperate stories are woven together is the genius of Val McDermid, her writing getting stronger by the book. This is the third Tony Hill/Carol Jordan book and, with the Wire in the Blood soon to be on our TV screens, she is soon to be catapulted into Rankine status.

What McDermid brings is a truly gruesome modus operendi, matched by a credible pyschological reason for the disturbed mind behind it. She creates not monsters, but damaged characters who are all the more scary for it.

Tony Hill and Carol Jordan use professional detachment to avoid intimacy; their struggle against their emotions rumbles like a volcano beneath the major plot lines. The closer they get together the more they put themselves at risk. The risk is not just that they might have to reveal vulnerable aspects to one another, but that this "weakness" will be exploited by some very nasty characters indeed.

Powerful, dark and gripping, The Last Temptation is not for the nervous. It will make you think and it will lose you sleep.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good - but not quite great 19 Nov 2002
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
There is just something missing to make this a great book but it is a riveting read and the description of the policework in Holland and Germany was fascinating. There is the feeling that the author suddenly tired of the book and it ends rather abruptly and it is difficult to believe that a seasoned policewoman would make such an elementary mistake. That being said it is a book which is difficult to put down and in Tony Hill we have a character who is flawed in a way which is not usual in this genre (i.e. the failed marriage, workaholic, borderline alcoholic cliché). I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the next, it will be interesting to see if the author will come back to Hill an Jordan and where they can go from here.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not her best. 26 Feb 2002
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I can assure one of the previous reviewsers that Val MCDermid is definitely not an over-hyped novelist. Some of her previous books have been absolutely stunners. Absolute stunners. (I am thinking in particular of The Mermaids Singing, the Wire in the Blood, A Place of Execution, and the sublime Killing the Shadows.) However, this one does not compare as well as some of the others.

Firstly, the undercover side was all well and good, but it dominated the plot far too much. and as a result what was actually a really decent premise of a serial killer plot was left as a secondary plot and remained slightly underdevloped. I simply did not care to read a novel dominated by Carol going under cover. It wasn't that it wasn't interesting, it was just that i would really have preferred (as i think another reviewer has said) much more concentration on the serial killer aspect. I would rather have had the entire book about the serial killer, as it had superb possibility and potential, but she failed to bring it out. Actually, i am very disappointed. I was expecting a lot more. A tense serial killer thriller, when instead i got a novel about someone going undercover to catch an underdeveloped and not at all menacing villain. It's a great shame. had she concentrated a lot more on the other aspect of the plot, then this book may well have turned out as one of her best. And even though i am extremely disappointed, i can still say that a disappointing Val McDermid book is still much better than anything else currently on the market. Hence the four stars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book
As usual all the books by this author are well worth reading, always good plots with a twist and the attention to detail is good - lots of research which makes the books very... Read more
Published 24 days ago by barbara hewetson
5.0 out of 5 stars Mcdermid does it again!
This was one Mcdermid book that had escaped the net as I have read the rest, but this was worth the wait.

Full of suspense and twists and turns.

Excellent!
Published 1 month ago by rosie116
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Another great thriller from Val McDermid. Third in the profiling series with the main characters Tony Hill and Carol Jordon.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another good read
Having recently read "A place of execution" by the same author, my first Val Mc D read, I was tempted to try another of McDermid's books. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars full of suspense
By far the best in this series so far. Develops the relationship between the principal characters on the basis of two-steps-back, one forward. Couldn't put it down.
Published 1 month ago by RobinOliver
5.0 out of 5 stars Edge of the seat
Another story of woven intrigue and suspense. A good read and a surprise ending. A great episode in the Tony Hill saga.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Read
Love the relationship with the two main characters, which is somewhat complex.
I would have liked the ending to be more in depth, felt it was a bit abrupt. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jean Lipscombe
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Been menaing to read these for years, when I got my kindle it meant I remembered to download them. They are totally addictive and could not put them down!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
I stumbled accross this author by accident, having watched the TV series years ago and am so glad I did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars another good book
love Val Mcdermid books this one is yet another brilliant read and i could not put it down worth the buy and am awaiting yet another one to come out!!
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