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If this was your first Val McDermid book what did you think of it? If you had read others, how did it compare?

Wire in the Blood - 5 stars
The Distant Echo - 4.5 stars
The Last Temptation - 4 stars
Mermaid Singing - 4 stars
Skeleton Road - 4 stars
Northanger Abbey - 3 stars

It was my first.

I've read all the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan books and the lowest rating I gave any of them was Splinter the Silence with a 4. Love that series. I've also read two of her standalones... A Place of Execution which got a 4.5 and Trick of the Dark which got a 5.

Read and loved all the Tony Hill / Carol Jordan Series : majority 5 stars, The Last Temptation was my lowest with 4 stars. 7 books, with the eighth due to be published at the end of this year.
Also read Killing the Shadows standalone : 4 Stars
Report for Murder : 3.5 Stars, The Skeleton Road : 3.5 Stars.

Everybody should read Wire in the Blood!

>5 Andrew-theQM: I agree with you on that.

>6 Carol420: I also enjoyed it when she brought the central character from Wire in the Blood back in a later book, which certainly threw the proverbial cat among the pigeons.

Jacko Vance in Retribution.

That's the One!

this was the first one I've read by Val McDermid