Bottom line: I learned a lot about crafting a _good_ crime novel with 3-dimensional characters from this book but I would not recommend this book. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. It is quite obvious that Carol and Tony work well together when they are teamed up to catch criminals. It also gives her a chance to regain some of her own self back, which is a very big step in her healing process.

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

Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. There is nothing really stood out considering its lack of climax, no plot twists until the very end and poor-developed characters.I had several suspects in mind, thanks to McDermid’s red herrings, but the actual culprit came as a shock to me. 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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Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble. In addition, two little boys (under 10) have gone missing and a few weeks before the events at the beginning of the book and the police have no leads. Carol and her team are getting no where so Carol decides to bring Tony Hill, profiler extraordinaire, on board. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler.But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. Overall, despite the flaws in this entry the core story involving Tony and Carol is very strong and definitely a reason to read this book as well as the later entries in this high-quality, suspenseful police-procedural crime thrillers. In The Torment of Others, Val McDermid keeps the tension mounting, as a mixture of psychological insight and dogged detective work leads inexorably to a terrifying climax where Tony faces one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered.