[2] 100 THINGS CHALLENGES : BOOKS!!

Apr 30, 2012 21:30



I didn't think about talking so soon about this book, but I just finished reading the paperback for the 3rd or 4th time (in preparation of reading The Retribution) and I think that its the perfect time to bring to you an awesome thriller.

The author, Val McDermid is a kickass author with a twisted mind. Every single book I have read of hers bring another awfully mad and twisted way to kill people.

If you like Criminal Minds, please note that Val McDermid is taking profiling to another level. You think some of the killers the BAU is tracking are sick? Try some of McDermid killers.

The Wire in the Blood is the second installment in the serie revolving around Tony Hill and Carol Jordan.

I'd be tempted to say that you need to read The Mermaid Singing before The Wire in the Blood, but having started the serie by this one I can say that you can safely try without feeling lost. There is enough material in the pages to give you a good feel of the relationship between Tony and Carol as well as of the after-effect of the case they worked in The Mermaid Singing.

The Wire in the Blood is a page turner. I read it between Liverpool and Paris and as soon as I finished it, moved on to The Last Temptation and so on and so on. Yes, be aware, once you start a book in the Tony Hill serie, you might not be able to stop until, like the Pokemon, you catch read them all.

Now this is all said, lets move to the plot.

The story takes place in the mid 90s, so one may have trouble with the fact that technologies were not what they are now. I know some people have trouble with that. I don't. But, you know, just saying.

All around the UK, young girls, teenagers, are disapearing. They leave home in the morning with their best clothes hidden in their backpack, never make it to school, and vanish.

And it is not until Chaz, hired to be part of the new National Profiling Task Force headed by Tony Hill, stumbled upon a cluster and create a theory with such implication that no one believes in, that their disappearances start to be connected.

The theory of Chaz?
It's simple, the killer is Jacko Vance.
And who is Jacko you might say?
It's simple too. He is a top athlete who never made it to the Olympics following an accident and who is now the favorite television figure in the UK, married to another TV presenter. Jacko Vance is the man every woman dreams of when in bed with their husband. He is a playboy who is faithful to his wife.
But like everything in Jacko Vance life, there are many layers to everything.

And so no-one believe Chaz and well, Chaz is a hot-head-overachiever lady and you know what happen to those kind of ladies who are alone in their theorizations and want to prove to everyone they are right? Yeah. Yeah, they die. At the end of the killer they identified. Because they were right.

Meanwhile, Carol is looking for a serial-arsonist and Tony is hired to use her case as an exercise for his new taskforce.

The author knows how to spin you, to take you into the brain of the killer, of his entourage, of his victim and of course of Tony and Carol.

If you like thrillers, if you adore having chills and like when the horror is nicely written, then you better go dive into this serie. And if you don't stay for the murders, then you'll stay for Tony and Carol, the most non-functional couple of England.

Below, Wire in the Blood, season 1, episode 3. Based on The Wire in the Blood.

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