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- ISBN-10: 0007145993
- ISBN-13: 978-0007145997
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The Last Temptation
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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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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Very PC (and that's not as in police constable)
Technically this is quite a good thriller which juggles two plots reasonably well. However, it grates a bit that all the nasty characters are heterosexual men with the exception of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sceptic a la M. Teste
too much gratuitous violence
This book was a great disappointment - I have enjoyed others in the series. After getting about a quarter of the way through I decided not to go on as I could not take any more... Read more
Published 7 months ago by birtwhistle
Yet another brilliant read.
I'm an avid Val McDermid fan and have yet to be disappointed by any of her books. This book has three story lines running through it and is a fast paced page turner. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Donna Taylor
Great Tony Hill/ Carol Jordan European trip
A great Tony Hill story mostly set in Germany where is is helping profile a killer of psychologists conveniently set up so that he stays close to Carol Jordan as she goes... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Clive
Murder most foul
The 3rd in the Tony Hill series. There are two crime investigations running alongside eachother. Psychologists are being murdered so are all in danger as Tony Hill may be? Read more
Published 16 months ago by Sookie B
Gratuitous violence and torture
I - like another reviewer - stopped reading this after about 80-100 pages. The plot and characterisation were weak, but most of all, it was the unnecessary descriptions of... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Helderbooks
Chillingly brilliant!
Again Val McDermid has written another fantastic novel in the Dr Tony Hill series.. Set in both Britain and Germany I did find this one a little more difficult to get into at first... Read more
Published 18 months ago by fluff-mum2b
A bit slow at the beginning but soon gets better
I found this book kind of hard to get into in the beginning but after a while the book began to pick up pace and I soon found myself unable to put the book down. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Sian
A nauseating book?
I inserted the question mark into the title as I have not read the book. The reason for not reading:
I bought the complete series read the first in the series and have not... Read more
I bought the complete series read the first in the series and have not... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by Pencoch
Slow start but keep going.....
I have read many Val Mc Dermid books and have purchased the set. This one i nearly gave up on. It had a few plots going on at the same time. Read more
Published on 29 April 2010 by M. Kelly
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