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written before about my disappointment in some of the recent Val McDermid novels but I keep reading them anyway, just because theyre so darned pageturny.
Im pleased to say this one is the best Ive read in a while,

Retired DCI Carol Jordan and her former team are dispersed, working in different jobs, or none at all.
However events conspire to bring Carol and psychological profiler Tony Hill back together, They attempt to rebuild their fragile friendship and, along the way begin looking into a case that may not even be a case a series of apparent suicides by highprofile women who have been trolled on social media for expressing feminist views.
The rest of the team become drawn in, Meanwhile Carol, being Carol, has an opportunity that she may have sabotaged before she even knows about it,

What draws me back to these books, and what makes this such a good one, is that they are completely immersive.
You know the characters but you want to know them more, Like real people, just when you think youve got them, they have the capacity to surprise you, McDermid is brilliant at the subtleties of human interaction, the small spaces between what we mean and what we say, the pain and the history that stops some people getting what they want.
Thats why the Jordan and Hill situation two people who cant be together but cant move on either so exasperating in life, is fascinating in art.


Some people have raised questions about plausibility its fair to say the killer and his motivation were the least interesting thing about the book.
But that, for me, is not the point, Murders are rare, nondomestic murders, that require highlevel detection skills, are even rarer, And yet crime fiction is ubiquitous, Authors have to be allowed a little licence,

What McDermid does do is capture the nature of modern policing the team work, the specialisation, the dynamics of a group who are both allies and rivals.
And she has an eye on every corner of contemporary culture from Twitter to the garden centre,

She has thrown another couple of handgrenades into her mix of gifted but conflicted characters which nicely sets up the next book.
I cant wait.

I received an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley,


First and foremost, a large thank you to NetGalley, Val McDermid, and Grove Atlantic for providing me with a copy of this book, which allows me to provide you with this review.


In the ninth instalment of the Tony Hill series, McDermid returns with a fabulous story that keeps series regulars fully committed and entices new readers to pick up and join the adventure.
After a handful of apparent suicides by women who have been harassed online, the authorities are left to wonder if cyberbullying is on the rise a truly faceless crime.
The general population is prepared to accept this, but Dr, Tony Hill has other ideas, pondering a theory that these women may be driven to die at the hands of a specific individual who is pulling the strings.
As he tries to formulate a case, he wrestles with helping his former colleague and sometimes friend, Carol Jordan, Their love/hate relationship sees the pendulum swing erratically as Jordan's personal life and love of drink lands her in a sizeable amount of trouble.
Little does she know, she's being eyed for a key position in a new and highly mobile Major Incident Team MIT.
With Hill advocating for a closer look at the suicides and this MIT ready to deploy, will Jordan be able to lead this ragtag collection of police investigators to sift through the evidence and determine if this collection of cyberbullying antics is more than meets the eye A fabulous addition to an already strong series that the reader will thorough enjoy.


Throughout the Tony Hill series, McDermid has flirted with a few ideas, First and foremost, the relationship that Hill and Jordan have with one another, Both strong willed, they portray two diverse yet highly similar characters, which propel the novels forward, This is seen throughout this book and the means by which McDermid tweaks their interactions, it offers new and strengthened aspects to the series relationship.
Secondly, McDermid has used Carol Jordan as a pawn throughout, moving her around as she pursues work opportunities and personal struggles.
The choice to remove her from the Bradfield Metropolitan Police had a straining effect on the series, as did her complete divorce from anything policebased.
Now, McDermid paints herself into a corner and cannot leave Jordan on the outside without removing her importance a a character.
While I applaud the means by which Carol Jordan returns, especially with this MIT possibility, it is as though McDermid did an aboutface in order to rectify a decision she, and the fan base, both realised was a disaster in the making.
In addition, the restructuring of the old MIT into this new ReMIT proves interesting and keeps the reader flashing back to some of the key elements of the series to date and the characters who had an impact.
It flows wonderfully with a story that is both current and poignant, adding to the novel's strength, As long as McDermid can keep the ideas coming and not play around too much with the character interactions, this series is strong and will continue for the foreseeable future.


Kudos, Madam McDermid for this wonderful addition to an already complex series, I cannot wait for what you have in store for fans next, though I hope the wait is not as long.


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sitelink wordpress. com/ The disturbing world of internet trolls is brought vividly to life in Val McDermids Splinter the Silence,

DCI Carol Jordan, like many of our protagonists within law enforcement, has demons of her own to contend with, particularly her relationship with the bottle, but duty calls, and with the help of psychological profiler Tony Hill she begins the hunt for a group of vile online predators.
These are men who torment women who have voiced opinions about particular men, and their unacceptable behaviour, When some of these women appear to have committed suicide, Tony Hill isnt so sure that its as cut and dried as that.
Hes trained to see patterns where the rest of us mere mortals would see nothing unusual,

Val McDermid writes in a succinct and absorbing manner, and I love the way she manages to engage the reader from the start.
I doubt youll like many of the characters in this novel, and the subject matter of cyber bullying isnt particularly palatable, amongst the many benefits of the World Wide Web, unfortunately we also have these darker aspects.
McDermid however, isnt afraid to face these issues head on, but long may she continue to unsettle and excite her readers.
Splinter The Silence is my first read of a Val McDermid novel, and as such also my introduction to the characters of exDCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler, Tony Hill.
From the off McDermid eases her readers into the setup, meaning that I didn't feel as if this was my first experience with her prolific pairing and I was quickly engaged by the story.
Her natural humour draws you into the world of her characters and the bond was instant for me!

The quality of the writing is magnificent and McDermid doesn't waste a word.
Her characters are hugely realistic and wonderfully flawed and all have enough idiosyncrasies to make them firm favourites with her readers.
Yet what stood out first and foremost for me throughout reading what is an undoubtedly an exceptional novel is the level of depth that every assertion was backed up by logic, reasoning and a rationale.
Where other authors might bluff, Val McDermid is the real deal, . You sense that she would be as comfortable with running a real Major Incident Team as writing about it, Her ability to convey her understanding in layman's terms and package it into a thrilling page turner which stands head and shoulders above her competition is second to none and as a new reader, I look forward to catching up on the history of this fascinating series.

Like always Val does not disappoint!

She brought back our beloved Tony and Carol with an action packed page tuner, when we all though the end of this couple was inevitable.


I love Val's writing and will always be a fan of Tony and Carol,
Hopefully the next book will be out soon! Mehhhhhhhhhhh,

This book had potential: the story idea was actually interesting and the writing style is good, however it was kind of ruined by a few things.
NOTHING happens for overpages of this book, The plot is solved so easily and inpages at the end, it feels like a throwaway plot or basically just an excuse to justify writing about these particular characters.
It just feels solved waayyyy too easily and then there were no real events, Also I feel like having a clinical psychologist and a 'hacker' on the same team is the easy way of saying 'i'll describe your killer AND get the evidence I need' without having to think of a clever way of getting any evidence or even a

plot.
Also there was so much continuation from the past stories that while I don't think you would struggle to understand the story without reading the past books, you might actually enjoy it when reading past ones.
Splinter the Silence is the ninth book in the Tony Hill amp Carol Jordan series and after last books trials are Tony and Carol slowly mending their relationship and it looks like Carol is getting a second chance by getting an offer that is hard to refuse.
All she has to do is not screw anything up, Tony meanwhile is troubled with a lot of women committing suicide, They have all been targeted by internet trolls, But Tony thinks that there is more to the suicides than that, . .

It seems that finally Tony and Carol is back as friends after everything that happened with her brother's murder.
I quite enjoy having them back to speaking with each other again and it seems that Tony is finally getting to Carol that she has a drinking problem.
Of course, it had to go so far for Carol that she has to be arrested for drunk driving before Tony frankly told her that she had to quit.
But by then the arrest had already damaged her reputation, which was really bad because the powers that be in the police wants her back, but not with a driving drunk sentence.
But everything can be fixed, Besides that is Tony discovering that there is something wrong with the suicides of a couple of women and soon he, Carol and Paula are investigating the suicides.


I found this book story especially good because it finally brought the old team together, I have missed reading about them working together under Carol, The case in itself took some time to get somewhere, And it felt like most of the time the book concentrated on other things than finding a killer, Carol and her drunk driving and the consequences of that took up a lot of the book and I did enjoy reading about Tony finally confronting Carol about her drinking problem and moving into the barn to help her the first couple of days and of course, getting rid of all the alcohol at her her place which didn't make her happy.
I do wish that case had taken a bit more priorities it was first towards the very end that books story really started to get intensive.
Not that the book was bad, I just got a bit impatient with all the personal stuff, I did enjoy that part when the new team was finally started to put all the pieces together and the manhunt started.


The ending was fitting, I don't want to give it away, but there had to be some consequences to Carols drunk driving and what happened after that.
It will be interesting to read the next book to see how it will be dealt with,

Thanks to Witness Impulse and Edelweiss for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! I gotpages in and gave up.
Boring story, one dimensional characters, below average writing, Too many other books to waste any more time on this one, The ninth in the Tony Hill amp Carol Jordan series, and some time since I read the previous book, Much of this book is devoted to reassembling the team into a new Unit, the rest to solving a group of three apparent suicides which Hill starts linking as murders.
McDermid is an excellent writer and the plot gradually unwinds for the new team, while having been previously made apparent to the reader.
Also, this book provides a reset for the Hill/Jordan relationship and the creation of a new team, which provide a new baseline for future books I look forward to numberin the series This is my first Val McDermid mystery, but it definitely won't be my last! Taking on a very contemporary issue of cyber bullying, Police detective Carol Jordan is investigating what appears to be some unrelated suicides cases of prominent women who have been outspoken in the public about controversial issues.
Immediately, they have received the unwelcome attention of some nasty cyber bullies which drove them to the brink of taking their own lives.
But criminal psychologist Tony Hill's Spidey senses are tingling and he feels that these suicides might be more than what they appear to be.
What follows is a fastpaced, wellcrafted literary thriller,

There is a backstory behind the mystery which deals with Carol Jordan's self destructive addiction to alcohol and her desire to return to the police force.
I enjoyed the detour from the pure action and it added depth and nuance to the characters, making me much more interested in reading more by this author.


I listened to the audio edition of this mystery, expertly narrated by Gerard Doyle, It did take some getting used to because the last books I listened to by this narrator were Christopher Paolini's Inheritance series, so I kept expecting dragons to burst out.
But, he does a nice job of accents and voices and there were definitely moments where I was glued to my earbuds.


I received a complimentary copy of this audiobook through Library Thing's Early er program in exchange for an honest review.

I always get nightmare reading Val MacDermid books, that how good she is, The queen of psychological thrillers, is back with her most gripping, chilling, suspenseful novel yet, featuring two of the most distinctive and unforgettable characters in crime fiction.
Tony Hill and Carol Jordon,

Chillingly a creepy twisted man is waiting and watching women, He creates himself into different people to worm his way into their live and trap them, This vile monster finds a way to kill them making it look like suicide,

Val McDermid knows only to well that us crime fans are drawn to the bad guys, We all love to have our heart racing wondering what will happen next and Val McDermid certainly puts us readers on the spot.


Mean while our love for psychological profiler Tony Hill is trained to see patterns when he comes across the series of suicides of women he needs to work out that although these women died in similar circumstances, different deaths.
Could it be murder But what kind of serial killer wants his crime stay hidden Former DCI Carol Jordon finds her self being arrested.

We all know that Val McDermid is one hell of a good writer, .