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  • Beneath the Bleeding

  • By: Val McDermid
  • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
  • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,267 ratings)

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Beneath the Bleeding

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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Summary

When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? What are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking, and the death toll keeps rising....

©2007 Val McDermid (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

"The queen of British crime.... McDermid is a consummate plotter so there are pleasing twists and turns in this first-rate story." ( Observer)
"The Queen of serial killers in this country keeps her end up...few can scoop Val on throat-clutching narrative.... Marvellous." ( Daily Mail)

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Not one of my favourites

To be honest the relationship between the two protagonists is starting to get a bit on my wick by this point!

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Brilliant

loved it, the suspense was so good. Val definitely did not disappoint. I'll listen again in a year..... Yeah it was that good

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Terrible narrator!

I love Val McDermid’s books, but Saul Reichlin’s narration is so so bad! It’s really hard to listen at times.

He makes sense to narrate a scandi noir series, but not a series like this set in Northern England!

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Excellent series

I love this series of books wonderful to listen to as I do the house work on my day off from lecturing

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Poor accents

Some of the accents did not ring true. The Welsh accent sounded Asian and another accent soundedJapanese.

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Can't Stop Listening

Another great listen written by Val McDermid and of course one of my fave readers Saul Reichlin! I'm so hooked that I listen to Val's books on my car system, Alexa in the bedroom and kitchen and through my ear pods when I'm walking or gardening and on my phone during my lunch break at work!! so I'm suddenly racing through my Audible book choice 📚.

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Another great book

Can not wait to download the next book. The performance and story just can't be beaten.

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still not keen on the narrator

Loving the twists and turns but hearing Sauls accents can really grate.... top tip... if you want Saul to sound Asian tell him the character is Welsh 🤣 and his East London/Cockney sounds like something out of Mary Poppins guv'na! Overall I can tune him out and hear the story so I will continue to listen as the 'will they won't they' element is still keeping me guessing and I'm enjoying finding out more about their pasts. Very cleverly woven tales of two crimes, even if it is a little far fetched in places its still a great story.

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Great storyline

Love the storyline and the growing workings of the new team.

What I don’t get is Carroll’s change of believing in Tony and just dis missing his ideas very offhand this also happened in the last book. Feels unbelievable really When she believed him at other times in the past. Feel like that need sorting.

Also this whole thing of Tony not being human that’s a bit needy this far in referring to himself in that way. Not really very clear why he feels he has to refer to himself. Why can’t he just be a guy who can get into their heads. Anyway brilliant story lines you will enjoy this one

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Different plot!

The plot was different and although I have not heard the previous books, I got the 'background' of the characters.

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