To The Last Page

I haven’t read a Val McDermid book before but was most impressed by Fever of the Bone, the 6th Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. While there is clearly a strong cast of character here that have been built up through a series of other adventures, but this doesn’t prevent the reader from soon picking up the personalities and the relationships lying between them. At first sight, there’s nothing unusual about the cold cases being investigated by DCI Carol Jordan and her elite investigation unit - only difficulties and impediments put in her way be a new Chief Constable who wants to shake things up a bit in the Bradfield police force. Soon however their talents are called upon in the case of a serial killer case who after much preparation and grooming of young teenagers on an Internet Social Networking site, has just started to draw his victims in and execute them, his motives a complete mystery. With profiler Tony Hill out-of-bounds under the new regime and having some personal issues of his own...