Friday, June 18, 2004
AUTHOR McDermid, Val.
TITLE The last temptation [sound recording] / by Val McDermid.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 2002.
DESCRIPT 14 sound discs (16.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
SERIES Unabridged books on CD.
NOTE Compact discs.
Read by Gerald Doyle.
SUBJECT Police psychologists -- Fiction.
Serial murderers -- Fiction.
Police -- England -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Audiobooks.
Books on CD.
ALT AUTHOR Doyle, Gerard, Narrator.
ISBN 1402542313.
Library Journal Review
The two major plots of McDermid's mystery develop slowly but unerringly on parallel paths. Profiler Dr. Tony Hill tracks a serial killer
whose own abuse ties back to the darkest pages of Germany's history. Meanwhile, British police detective Carol Jordan is undercover
in Germany to try to entrap a major crime lord in a dangerously constructed operation. Gerard Doyle handles the suspenseful pacing
quite well. Listeners should be forewarned that there is heavy violence and much that is disturbing in the descriptions of abuse and in
many of the incidents depicted here. This is an engaging but difficult story. Highly recommended for adult audiences only.-
Publishers Weekly Review
British author McDermid brings back DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill from The Mermaids Singing (1995)
and The Wire in the Blood (1997) and thrusts them into a psychologically chilling and multifaceted thriller. Jordan goes undercover in
Germany as part of a dangerous operation to capture Tadeusz Radecki, an international smuggler of drugs and illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, her contact in Berlin, Criminal Intelligence Officer Petra Becker, is helping her Internet lover, Dutch Brigadier Marijke van
Hasselt, on a grisly case whose victims, psychological researchers, are sexually tortured and murdered. Jordan suggests that Dr. Hill
work with them in Berlin. The suspense builds as scenes alternate among the two English crime fighters, Becker, van Hasselt, Radecki
and his henchman, Darko Krasic, and the anonymous serial killer, whose grisly tactics echo Nazi psychological experiments.
McDermid gives depth and individuality to all seven characters and each city. With consummate skill and pacing, she braids together
the complex story lines through surprising revelations, heartstopping suspense and cruel double-crosses. The two major plots don't
mesh, but they crisscross, creating even more tension. McDermid's writing and her understanding of the criminal mind get better with
each novel. With its European locales, depiction of Nazi mind experiments and hints at another Jordan/Hill novel, this may well be her
breakout book. She certainly deserves it.
TITLE The last temptation [sound recording] / by Val McDermid.
EDITION Unabridged.
IMPRINT Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 2002.
DESCRIPT 14 sound discs (16.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
FORMAT CD.
SERIES Unabridged books on CD.
NOTE Compact discs.
Read by Gerald Doyle.
SUBJECT Police psychologists -- Fiction.
Serial murderers -- Fiction.
Police -- England -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Audiobooks.
Books on CD.
ALT AUTHOR Doyle, Gerard, Narrator.
ISBN 1402542313.
Library Journal Review
The two major plots of McDermid's mystery develop slowly but unerringly on parallel paths. Profiler Dr. Tony Hill tracks a serial killer
whose own abuse ties back to the darkest pages of Germany's history. Meanwhile, British police detective Carol Jordan is undercover
in Germany to try to entrap a major crime lord in a dangerously constructed operation. Gerard Doyle handles the suspenseful pacing
quite well. Listeners should be forewarned that there is heavy violence and much that is disturbing in the descriptions of abuse and in
many of the incidents depicted here. This is an engaging but difficult story. Highly recommended for adult audiences only.-
Publishers Weekly Review
British author McDermid brings back DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill from The Mermaids Singing (1995)
and The Wire in the Blood (1997) and thrusts them into a psychologically chilling and multifaceted thriller. Jordan goes undercover in
Germany as part of a dangerous operation to capture Tadeusz Radecki, an international smuggler of drugs and illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, her contact in Berlin, Criminal Intelligence Officer Petra Becker, is helping her Internet lover, Dutch Brigadier Marijke van
Hasselt, on a grisly case whose victims, psychological researchers, are sexually tortured and murdered. Jordan suggests that Dr. Hill
work with them in Berlin. The suspense builds as scenes alternate among the two English crime fighters, Becker, van Hasselt, Radecki
and his henchman, Darko Krasic, and the anonymous serial killer, whose grisly tactics echo Nazi psychological experiments.
McDermid gives depth and individuality to all seven characters and each city. With consummate skill and pacing, she braids together
the complex story lines through surprising revelations, heartstopping suspense and cruel double-crosses. The two major plots don't
mesh, but they crisscross, creating even more tension. McDermid's writing and her understanding of the criminal mind get better with
each novel. With its European locales, depiction of Nazi mind experiments and hints at another Jordan/Hill novel, this may well be her
breakout book. She certainly deserves it.
AUTHOR Patterson, James, 1947-
TITLE The big bad wolf : a novel / by James Patterson.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 2003.
DESCRIPT 390 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Cross, Alex (Fictitious character)
African American psychologists -- Fiction.
Government investigators -- Fiction.
Forensic psychology -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ADD TITLE The big bad wolf.
ISBN 0316602906.
"Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as the Wolf." "Alex Cross's
first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad
daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and
sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime -
is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves." "Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows
impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to
track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive." "As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too.
His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped."--BOOK JACKET.
TITLE The big bad wolf : a novel / by James Patterson.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 2003.
DESCRIPT 390 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Cross, Alex (Fictitious character)
African American psychologists -- Fiction.
Government investigators -- Fiction.
Forensic psychology -- Fiction.
Slave trade -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ADD TITLE The big bad wolf.
ISBN 0316602906.
"Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as the Wolf." "Alex Cross's
first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad
daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and
sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime -
is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves." "Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows
impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to
track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive." "As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too.
His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped."--BOOK JACKET.
