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Title	:	Fever of the Bone (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #6)
Author	:	Val McDermid
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	2009 by Little, Brown
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller

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Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...

When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose. But it's not long before Tony and DCI Carol Jordan realise it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests and beliefs - and then luring them to their deaths.

But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he's pushed to the margins by Carol's cost-cutting boss and replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.

Psychologically gripping and relentlessly paced, 'Fever of the Bone' is the perfect introduction for those who have not yet discovered the damaged but brilliant criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, best known from ITV's award-winning 'Wire in the Blood'.

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Original Title:	Fever of the Bone
ISBN:	1408701987 (ISBN13: 9781408701980)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #6
Characters:	Tony Hill, Carol Jordan
Literary Awards:	Barry Award for Best Paperback Original (2011), Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery (2011), Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2011)

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My shameful pleasure is murder mysteries and police procedurals and Val McDermid is one of the best. Having said that, this wasn't her best book. I was on to her quickly and found the last chunk where the police had to catch up with me tortuous. Also, she seemed distracted from her usually great tension and thrill building and more interested in exploring the psychology of one of the main characters. The sub plot (the 'other' murder) was unrelated to the whole and the ending fizzled instead of

Fever Of The Bone is easily my favourite book of the series so far, & I sense that there will be more Val McDermid in my life again very soon. There are two main cases for Carol's team to sink their teeth into, both of which are engrossing, & there are some pleasing character developments to enjoy in between too, as well as a couple of intriguing new coppers to meet. Plenty going on & it moves along at a comfortable pace, never a dull moment. It may be a little predictable for some

Quick deaths + minimal gore makes the fact that the victims are minors not so bad, allowing one to focus on puzzling out who killed them and why. I quite enjoyed watching all the detectives I've finally grown fond of work together as a cohesive team. I also enjoyed the personal aspects, especially the focus on Tony finding out more about his father. I reveled in every detail of the visit to the latter's impressive house. And I LOVED the ending. I'm gonna pretend I don't see any storm clouds

Tricky, tricky! I love McDermid's intricate and sometimes quite startling mind.

Sometimes picking up the latest book in a series without ever reading one before can be like tuning into a soap opera for the first time. I recall that sage of the twenties Bertram Wooster tying himself in knots trying to work out the best way to summarize before a new adventure. Val McDermid clearly takes the approach that no summary is necessary, and so the new reader is thrown in to either swim or drop like a stone to the ocean floor. To be fair there are a lot of hints to the back story as

DCI Carol Jordan has a new boss, Chief Constable James Blake. Though he hasnt actually broken her team up yet, hes pretty plain about the fact that he thinks her squad is a waste of resources and they should be more of a general resource to the entire police force, oh, and he doesnt believe Tonys worth the money they pay him as they have police officers trained in profiling. I suspect hes a bit intimidated by Dr Tony Hill. Poor Carol, shell do what she can to keep her team together, its taken

There are common elements to Val McDermid's Tony Hill books: a series of murders (of course) committed by an unknown assailant, some kind of doubt about Tony's usefulness as a profiler, and the ever present will-they-won't-they tension between Tony and Carol Jordan.Yet, despite all this, every time I read the newest installment of this series I find myself more drawn into the story than ever before.As always, the whydunnit is a bigger question than the whodunnit, and the great thing is that once