Tony Hill and Carol Jordan - The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 2)
The ferociously readable, #1 bestselling crime thriller that led to the much-loved ITV show…
‘Wholly satisfying’ Ian Rankin
Young girls are disappearing nationwide
Dr Tony Hill sets his team a task: find a link between the cases.
Only one officer comes up with a theory, but it’s too wild… that is, until one of their number is murdered and mutilated.
Tony has started a game – one where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed. He has baited an aggressor whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind…
When a killer is hiding in plain sight
Who can stop them?
‘Truly frightening’ The Times
‘Sly and sophisticated, weaving the mundane with the stomach-churningly depraved’ Express
”'The book [has] a sense of gravitas and intelligence utterly beyond lesser writers in the field … This is a wholly satisfying read which cleverly subverts tradition and expectation” - Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday
'This is a shocking book, stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good. It is so convincing that one fears reality may be like this and these events the awful truth' Ruth Rendell -
'The Wire in the Blood is truly frightening, McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing … Tony Hill, driven and disturbed, is an appealing and original character. This is a writer who just gets better and better' The Times -
'Terrific chiller from Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris … Thank God for Tony Hill and psychological profiling' Guardian -
'Val McDermid is an accomplished storyteller, and this scary, fast-moving tale is engrossing' Daily Telegraph -