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    The Last Temptation: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 3
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    The Last Temptation: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 3

    Written by Val McDermid

    Narrated by Saul Reichlin

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    About this audiobook

    A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home… Meanwhile, his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the only person she can call on for help.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateAug 6, 2015
    ISBN9781510006416
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    The Last Temptation: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series, Book 3
    Author

    Val McDermid

    VAL McDERMID is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels. She has won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; her novels have been selected as New York Times Notable Books and have been Edgar Award finalists. She was the 2010 recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Crime Writing. More than 10 million copies of her books have been sold around the world. She lives in the north of England. Visit her website at www.valmcdermid.com.

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    • 4/5
      This 3rd installment of Jodan/Hill series is an exciting thriller. It shows the intricate plotting and great character development of the author, Val McDermid. It's a bit of a nail-biter and very hard to put down and kept me reading long into the night. I'm now looking forward to reading the next book. I highly recomend this series as they are very entertaining reads.
    • 1/5
      Only finished this because I was away on holiday and didn't have anything else to read. Val McDermid has been on the radio quite a lot recently and she is just fantastic. Also I heard a few minutes of a radio drama she wrote called 'Deadheading' which was wonderful. If anyone is going to get rich writing pot boilers then I am glad it is her. However the main characters in this book - Carol and Tony - are just so awful I can't bear to think back on it too clearly.
    • 3/5
      I've listened to a couple of the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books now. This one was a bit different form the previous ones, with Carol set on an undercover mission in Germany. The books flow well and I really like the characters which McDermid creates are well rounded and imperfectly believable. The story wasn't the best of the series, with a harrowing finale leaving the main characters in a bad state.
    • 3/5
      This dark and twisted thriller is not an easy read. Two in-depth plot lines play out side by side, both of which are good and would perhaps be better written as two separate books. The subplot is as involved as the main plot and, at times, the switch between them is jarring for the reader. In one of the plots, Chief Inspector Carol Jordan undertakes a dangerous covert mission to bring down a European crime boss known for trafficking drugs and illegal immigrants. The fact she bears such a striking resemblance to someone in his past and hopes to use it to her advantage without her true motives being detected is a bit of a stretch at this level of criminal operation. In another plot, a psychotic serial killer is targeting professionals for reasons that tie back to his ancestry. Though this is a work of fiction, some of the most appalling historical facts are embedded within the story.Criminal profiler, Dr. Tony Hill, is the link between the two plot lines. Tony and Carol are drawn together from the beginning of the book and their separate cases are intertwined all the way to the end. The duo's undoing is also questionable and a little disappointing, given the depth of intelligence and strength the author has assigned to each character.There are a lot of characters, a few of whom appear unnecessary as the plots advance. However, the writing is strong and the book is sufficiently interesting to make it to the end, though two individual attempts were required to get through it. The main characters are not easily likable, and the combination of two strong and separate plot lines resulted in an awkward and somewhat flat ending.
    • 3/5
      The Last Temptation. Val McDermid. 2003. Profiler Tony Hill becomes involved with a serial murderer who is killing experimental psychologists in Holland and Germany. His former partner is undercover trying trap a notorious criminal who deals in drugs and illegal aliens in Germany. The cases collide in an exciting climax. This is the second Tony Hill novel I have read and I found it suspenseful and interesting. McDermid is a good writer and I plan to read the other Tony Hill novels.
    • 4/5
      A decent page-turner focusing on two elements: the legacy of Nazi medical experimentation and a complex undercover assignment in Berlin that leads to the tracking of a major criminal empire, and its suave, capable, and sadistic leader. Readers are introduced to a disturbed killer who is bumping off experimental psychologists. The book is intelligent, and also discusses the cracks in Europe's police capabilities when a single criminal commits crimes in more than one country. Also: do the ends justify the disturbing means? For this reader, the only weak element was the Epilogue, which ostensibly tied a few loose plot elements together. It was unnecessary and uneffective, and didn't match the quality of the 99% of the book preceeding it.
    • 4/5
      Not quite as gripping as "Wire in The Blood" but still a wonderful serial killer/police procedural novel. It made me want to see a map of the water shipping routes of Europe and a picture of a Rhine Boat, the large cargo ships. The two novels I've read with Tony Hill have left me wanting to know more about him and his history.
    • 5/5
      This book is one of a series of books by Val McDermid about the neurotic, socially inept but brilliant criminal profiler, Tony Hill, and assertive, maverick detective Carol Jordan, and the odd, dependent relationship that develops between them as they solve crimes together. This story (the third in the series), puts Carol in harm's way as part of an undercover sting operation. Tony is in danger himself. There is a good cast of supporting characters, all of whom are realistically multi-faceted and interesting.
    • 3/5
      Not quite as satisfying as previous instalments this is the story of Carol Jordan working undercover and Tony Hill trying to work out who killed some women close by. The two of them are a little too caught up in themselves to be believable as a working team and not as a pair of people bent on self-destruction.I didn't get as caught by the story as by previous I think the two parallel stories fell a little flat occasionally.
    • 3/5
      May I begin by tempering this review with the information that this is the first Val McDermid book that I have read; consequently,my views may need a little more work.At 530 pages, this is a big crime story but, it flows well and I never got that awful 'only three hundred pages to go' feeling. The book uses the three, or even four, different stories running side by side technique with each chapter split into three sub sections. I am not a great fan of this style but, MacDermid does it better than most and, after a few chapters, I settled into the book's rhythm.Characters are sketchily drawn and even the main storyline of a police lookalike for a master criminals dead girlfriend is hardly new but the tale rattles along at just the right pace to make these defects insignificant. This would be a cracking book to take upon a long flight: hours would pass seemingly in the blink of an eye whilst engrossed in the story.My main criticism of this work is one that I would aim at the entire genre of crime fiction: namely, the need to continually 'up the crime'. Sherlock Holmes could chase a jewel thief, Hercules Poirot needed a murder but only one and with very few details of the body. Taggart, Daziel and Pascoe et al use multiple deaths but still of the clean variety. Then, along comes the Messiah TV programmes and the murders become gory and now every crime book and film tries to outdo its rivals for sickening violence. The culmination of this book, The Last Temptation, involves the brutal rape of our heroine, DCI Carol Jordan. I am not convinced that, in a book which is essentially entertainment, that this is necessary but, even leaving that aside, the manner in which this was relegated to an unfortunate occurrence within a dozen pages seemed even more gratuitous.
    • 4/5
      I seem to have a singular knack for grabbing an interesting book only to realize, near the end, that I've read the middle of a series. *le sigh* On a happy note, that means there are more of these to read!This was a very interesting book. The characters were fun if maybe a wee bit flat. Lots of suspense. I don't get to read many books about the police processes in the EU, so I found this very interesting. Now time for me to start over with the first book.
    • 3/5
      Interesting look at post-unification Germany and EU Europe. For the most part, without excess plot twists.