A review by mary_brawley
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid

3.0

"The Mermaids Singing" is very well written. The story is compelling, the characters complex. I had to skip the descriptions of torture; and frankly, I don't understand why fiction writers have to describe these things in gruesome detail. I will read other Val McDermid books. I hope her later books rely less on graphic accounts of human inhumanity.