Karin,
Re your comment below:
> Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing, written 10
or
> more years after Report
> for Murder is totally different, really gruesome,
in
> fact. There's no one
> hero, although it's more or less a police
procedural
> with the emphasis on
> Carol Jordan (the name is too reminiscent of
Lindsay
> Gordon), a competent
> and ambitious and detective inspector. There's
a
> serial killer who leaves
> mutilated bodies of men in the gay cruising area
of
> Glasgow. The chapters
> alternate between the police view of things
and
> accounts written by the
> killer, describing step by step the process
of
> stalking, kidnapping and
> torturing the victims. The homemade torture
devices
> are based on some from
> the Spanish Inquisition, updated with
electricity.
> Really horrible. Anyway,
> as far as plot goes, it's pretty tense and hard
to
> figure out, but I sort
> of wish I hadn't read it because it's
very
> disturbing. It won a British
> crime writing award, possibly the Golden Dagger.
You
> have been warned.
I believe THE MERMAIDS SINGING was set in Yorkshire
(implied if not exlicit), not Scotland, and that the city was
called Bradfield, most likley a fictionalized version of
Bradford in Yorkshire's West Riding.
JIM DOHERTY
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