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FEVER OF THE BONE - Val McDermid

Author Information
Book Title: 
Fever of the Bone
Author Name: 
Val McDermid
Author's Home Country: 
United Kingdom
ISBN: 
9781408701997
Series: 
Carol Jordan / Tony Hill
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Police Procedural
Special Interests: 
Profiler
Location: 
Bradfield UK
Publisher: 
Little & Brown
Year of Publication: 
2009

Book Review: 

There are reasons why Val McDermid is one of the best in the business when it comes to writing crime fiction and they are all contained in FEVER OF THE BONE.
 
Tony, Carol and her team are all familiar but evolving characters. Characters you care about. Several different threads of the plot weave in and out of each other, changing emphasis at just the right time for maximum suspense.
 
FEVER OF THE BONE differs from many books featuring serial killers in that McDermid doesn't take you inside the killer's head and doesn't describe graphic violence.
It is a police procedural and one of the best I've read in a long time.
 
FEVER OF THE BONE is one of my top books of 2009 to date. It would take something very, very special to knock it off that list. I can't recommend it highly enough. 
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