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The Mermaids Singing di Val McDermid
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The Mermaids Singing (originale 1995; edizione 2012)

di Val McDermid (Autore), Graham Roberts (Narratore), Llc Dreamscape Media (Publisher)

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This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim. A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage--or the power--to stop it...… (altro)
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Titolo:The Mermaids Singing
Autori:Val McDermid (Autore)
Altri autori:Graham Roberts (Narratore), Llc Dreamscape Media (Publisher)
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ˆIl ‰canto delle sirene: romanzo di Val McDermid (1995)

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    The Retribution di Val McDermid (kraaivrouw)
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    The Black Line di Jean-Christophe Grange (maralee)
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    The Surrogate di Tania Carver (Moongirl)
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    Litrvixen: They just feel similar with their emphasis on the psychological and the twisted ways of killing that the murderer employs. Also some thematic overlap with the serial killers of both books.
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    Uomini che odiano le donne di Stieg Larsson (kraaivrouw)
    kraaivrouw: It's mentioned in the book and it's another great thriller.
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(1995)1st in the series that the BBC series was based on. At times this story becomes very graphic in violence, torture and sex. However, it is well done and introduces Psychologist Tony Hill to Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. They become a very good team in trying to profile the serial killer that seems to have targeted the gay community in Bradfield.KIRKUS REVIEW Nothing in McDermid's wisecracking books about Manchester p.i. Kate Brannigan (Clean Break, 1995, etc.) could have prepared you for this taut study of Handy Andy, the name that psychological profiler Tony Hill has adopted to humanize the faceless S/M connoisseur the Bradfield coppers call the Queer Killer. Tony, who's treating his own sexual hangups by not hanging up on an importunate caller looking for phone sex, is hauled aboard the stalled investigation when bigoted Supt. Tom Cross won't admit the possibility that the three torture-murders are the work of a single hand. In short order Hill and Inspector Carol Jordan have a fourth crime to work with--the mutilated body of a local constable--but it doesn't help; Andy is too savvy, and now too practiced, to leave any traces at the scene. As Andy recounts the details of each murder to a celebratory tape recorder, Cross stumbles badly, planting evidence on a gym manager who bragged about knowing all four victims, beating and arresting him when he tries to flee the country, and abandoning him in his holding cell to a nightmare of justice gone wrong . Even with Cross on suspension, the case still has room for the mole who's leaking info to his lover on the Sentinel Times and for the copycat killer determined to piggyback on the notoriety of Handy Andy, who's planning a last coup against Hill himself. The grim details make this one not for everybody--but if serial killers are your meat, you'll see why McDermid won this year's Gold Dagger from Britain's Crime Writers Association.Pub Date: Dec. 1st, 1996ISBN: 0-06-101174-6Page count: 288ppPublisher: HarperCollinsReview Posted Online: May 20th, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15th, 1996The killer turns out to be Angelica, the woman who has been calling Tony and giving him sexual pleasure over the phone, when he seemed to need it most. Angelica is a trans-gender who used to be a man. She now wants someone to love her and kills those who reject her. Her ultimate goal is Tony who she kidnaps in the end and tortures him as is her M.O. Tony manages to escape by using psychology to fool her into believing that he wants her.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Great read demonstrates the rigors and personal riskd that police and staff have to put up with when investigating a case.
A case where 4 men are murdered after grime tourcher wiyh no evidence available.
A twist at the dramatic end. ( )
  BryceV | Oct 29, 2023 |
All the clichés of the genre are in here. It is like crime fiction bingo. Angry senior police officer that doesnt like the main character, the journalist that is nasty and hinders the process, the 'will they wont they' romance that will likely drag on for at least 10 books despite being spent and boring by the end of book one, being book one the crimes are of course linked to the main character, a kidnap of a main character, ............... I could go on but you get the idea.
That aside the book is badly written but the plot is actually quite good. I will read a few more and see if they improve. ( )
  pigeonjim | Jul 26, 2023 |
Un asesino en serie está sembrando el terror en la pequeña ciudad de Bradfield. Han aparecido los cadáveres de cuatro hombres brutalmente torturados y mutilados. La policía está desorientada a causa de la falta de pistas. Debido al depravado modo de actuar del asesino, decide recurrir a la colaboración de Tony Hill, un psicólogo experto en el estudio de mentes criminales. Hill, acostumbrado a relacionarse con homicidas ya encarcelados, debe enfrentarse ahora a un monstruo que está en libertad, con el riesgo de convertirse en su próxima víctima.
  Natt90 | Jan 20, 2023 |
I can't say that I really liked the book but it held my attention pretty well. I would certainly try the second in the series.

I'm not particularly squeamish when it comes to graphic violence but there were several scenes and/or descriptions that put me off. If you're opposed to hardcore torture, you might want to skip it. ( )
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
McDermid, Valautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Allvee, MarekKujundaja.autore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Cumming, AlanReaderautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Grünwald, Manes H.Übersetzerautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Reichlin, SaulNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Roberts, GrahamNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Schmidt, CordulaProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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The Museum of Criminology and Torture, San Gimignano, Italy.
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For Tookie Flystock, my beloved serial insect killer.
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From 3 1/2" disc labelled: Backup.007; file Love.001

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This was the summer he discovered what he wanted--at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling. The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim. A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage--or the power--to stop it...

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