My hours outside of work for the past couple of weeks have been taken up by reading a bunch of novels by Val McDermid, especially the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series.

It all started innocuously enough last year when I saw a preview for Wire In The Blood on BBC America.  After watching a couple of episodes I was hooked.  Recently I discovered the books that the series was based on and ordered one of them.  Well, that was like extra crack for the addict.  So I found myself ordering the rest of the Tony Hill series as well as a couple of others. 

Over the past two weeks I’ve read the following:
The Mermaids Singing
The Wire In The Blood
The Last Temptation
A Place Of Execution
The Distant Echo
Killing The Shadows

And right now I’m working on The Torment Of Others.

Yes, I know it’s cheesy and it’s not realistic, but I’m a sucker for crime stories of all types.  One thing I have to say, though, is that Ms. McDermid has a wickedly evil imagination.  Her serial killers are some pretty sadistic bastards.