The Torment of Others

Notes

The Torment of Others by Val McDermid is the 4th of her Dr Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan series and the 2006 Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award winner.

A psychologically dark nail-biter. Guaranteed to keep you reading late into the night.

Publisher’s Synopsis

A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one Derek Tyler. But Tyler’s been locked up in a mental institution for two years, barely speaking a word – except to say that ‘the Voice’ told him to do it.

Top criminal psychologist Dr Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable – this is not a copycat murder but something much stranger. While DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate and dangerous undercover police operation to trap the murderer, Hill heads towards a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered…

Read a full review of The Torment of Others by Val McDermid at Reviewing the Evidence.