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april_does_feral_sometimes 's review for:
Fever Of The Bone
by Val McDermid
As usual, Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan are up to their knees in the blood of innocents! This time, someone is killing 14-year-old children. If that isn't awful enough, Jordan has a new boss, too. Blake, the new chief, doesn't want Hill called in when a boy's body is discovered, horrifically mutilated. He thinks he needs to save money by using a department profiler, instead of calling in an outside consultant like Hill. When the department man proves to be a fool, Jordan and her team defy Blake and soon Dr. Hill is pointing them in the right direction. There is more at stake than whether Hill is the profiler on the case - Blake wants to close Jordan's special murder team down.
Hill is working hard on the murders, but he's doing so to avoid something else - he has information about his father in an envelope sitting on his table. Vanessa, his evil mother, overplayed her hand by trying to force Tony to sign a paper when he was drugged with painkillers in a hospital in the last book. Jordan walked into the room just in time to prevent the signing. The paper was his father's will, leaving Tony all of his money, and his mother was trying to trick him into signing over the inheritance to her. Tony is now rich, but he is very reluctant to have anything to do with this. He had no idea of who his father was - and he's feeling a little upset about finally learning what his horrible mother did so many years ago to drive his father away. Will his own mental neurosis become worse? The tortures Vanessa inflicted on him when Tony was a child were completely destructive to his ability to be normal. What if Hill's father left because Tony was a 'bad seed'? Tony is thinking about leaving it alone.
Secrets will be revealed.
Hill is working hard on the murders, but he's doing so to avoid something else - he has information about his father in an envelope sitting on his table. Vanessa, his evil mother, overplayed her hand by trying to force Tony to sign a paper when he was drugged with painkillers in a hospital in the last book. Jordan walked into the room just in time to prevent the signing. The paper was his father's will, leaving Tony all of his money, and his mother was trying to trick him into signing over the inheritance to her. Tony is now rich, but he is very reluctant to have anything to do with this. He had no idea of who his father was - and he's feeling a little upset about finally learning what his horrible mother did so many years ago to drive his father away. Will his own mental neurosis become worse? The tortures Vanessa inflicted on him when Tony was a child were completely destructive to his ability to be normal. What if Hill's father left because Tony was a 'bad seed'? Tony is thinking about leaving it alone.
Secrets will be revealed.