Killing the Shadows, Val McDermid
Killing the Shadows, Val McDermid
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Killing the Shadows

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Vari Sylvester

Unabridged: 16 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/25/2005


Synopsis

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey—the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but vowed never to work for them again when they went against her advice and badly screwed up an investigation as a consequence. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest.Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes again. And again. And Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.Rich in atmosphere, Killing the Shadows uses the backdrops of city and country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter and hunted, a confrontation that can have only one outcome.

About Val McDermid

One of Britain's most popular authors of contemporary crime fiction, Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community, read English at Oxford, then returned to Scotland to work as a journalist. She was National Bureau Chief on a national Sunday tabloid before quitting in 1991 to become a full-time novelist.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonetta on December 04, 2013

Fiona Cameron is a psychologist and criminal case profiler who until recently consulted with Scotland Yard’s Metropolitan Police. A high-profile case that eventually went bust caused the rift though she still maintains a friendship with the man in charge of the investigation. Now she’s working from......more

Goodreads review by Devoradora on March 28, 2021

Segunda toma de contacto que tengo con esta autora y segunda (y última vez) que me quedo como a medias... Esta historia se me ha hecho algo pesada, tiene partes interesantes y que mantiene la intriga pero se hace eterno con descripciones y subtramas que no aportan nada de nada a la historia en si. Co......more

Goodreads review by Erika on August 02, 2011

I love Val McDermid! Having said that I also want to mention that I can never read two of her books in a row. She leaves me seriously disturbed and gets under my skin the way no other writer can, and I need to read something cheerful and light once I've turned the last page of one of her novels. The......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on February 26, 2015

I enjoyed this thriller / crime story. It has three crime stories in one book, really, and the main story evolves into a thriller rather than a detective story. Fiona Cameron is the lead character - she is a psychologist who has worked with police in the past to do what she calls "geographic Profili......more

Goodreads review by Claudia on April 16, 2020

O que atrapalhou mais a minha leitura foi o ritmo lento. De resto, gostei imenso do enredo e quero ler mais livros desta autora fantástica e minuciosa na forma como desenvolve os crimes e as personagens......more