The Torment of Others by Val McDermid

Author:Val McDermid
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780312936099
Publisher: St. Martin's
Published: 2004-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Tony made his way down Bellwether Street to the Woolmarket, where he sat down on one of the benches that looked across the busy square. Unpacking the underlying message of the killer’s actions was only the first step, but it was a necessary one. He had to move backwards into the unravelling before he could extrapolate how those deep motivations might shape the public behaviour of the man who was perpetrating these vicious actions. Until he could do that, he wouldn’t be much use to Carol. Or to the killer’s future victims. ‘You’ve always looked for praise.’ He spoke quietly, his lips hardly moving. ‘But they never gave you enough of it, did they? They never valued you for what you wanted to be valued for. You wanted the power that people’s admiration would bring you, and it never happened. So what do you do for a living? You’ll have chosen something that offered you the prospect of lording it over the rest of us. You’d have liked the armed forces or the police or the prison service, but I’d guess you’re not disciplined enough to handle that. So maybe a security guard? A nightclub bouncer? Temple Fields has plenty of those. Something where you can throw your weight around anyway.’ He raised his eyes and let his gaze drift over the assortment of humanity going about its business. On the far side of the square, a woman in a dark blue uniform was tapping a stylus against a handheld computer. ‘Or a traffic warden,’ Tony muttered. They know the streets.’

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