The torment of others
By: Val McDermid
Edition: 1st St. Martin's pbk. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780312936099
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Police psychologists; Police; Serial murders; Prostitutes; Crimes against; Fiction; Policewomen; Doctor Hill, Tony (Fictitious character); Detective Chief Inspector Jordan, Carol (Fictitious character)
Description: Devastated after the vicious assault she suffered in The Last Temptation, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan has returned to Bradfield to resume her career. But she is surprised to discover that clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has followed her there to take up a post in a high security mental hospital. When she is assigned a case involving the grotesque murder of a prostitute, she turns to him for help. The killing resembles in every detail a series of murders that took place a couple of years before--for which Derek Tyler was tried, convicted and sentenced. Another murder soon follows. The police mount a full investigation and this terrifying scenario presents itself: is it possible the killer is someone on the inside of the investigation?
Notes: Preface to The grave tattoo: p. [385]-395.