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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 (1,263 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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Another intricate case

Val McDermid again teases the reader with complex and intertwined murder cases against the ongoing background of Tony and Carol's relationship. A page turner narrated well by Saul Reichlin - although the mispronounced Alnwick did bring me up short!

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Brilliant 5th book

This is the 5th book in the Tony Hill/Caroll Jordan series. A full 5 stars.

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Gripping

A good listen, exciting, hard to switch off, kept high interest right to the end.

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Oh the Narration!

Hooked to this series now as I love the characters complexity but oh the narration!!
If the stories hadn’t been so good I would have given up long before now but I had thought I was getting used the narration. The accents are atrocious and seem to be getting worse! Scouse & Black Country bloody awful but then the Chinese female accent was actually offensive.

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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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