The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 2)

The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 2)

by ValMcDermid (Author)

Synopsis

Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill. 'A terrific chiller from Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' Guardian Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up the recently founded National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory, but it is ridiculed by the rest of the group until someone murders and mutilates one of their number. Could Bowman's outrageous suspicion possibly be true? For Tony Hill, the murder of a member of his team becomes a matter for personal revenge. Aided by his previous colleague, Carol Jordan, he embarks upon a campaign of psychological terrorism -- a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too easily reversed.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: New edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03 Feb 2003

ISBN 10: 000649983X
ISBN 13: 9780006499831
Prizes: Shortlisted for WH Smith Thumping Good Read Book Award 1998.

Media Reviews
'Compelling and shocking' Minette Walters 'Gripping, intelligent stuff' Mail on Sunday 'A deliciously gruesome serial killer thriller... Ms McDermid finds new ways to shock and revolt us' New York Times 'Terrifying but stylish, cruel and compassionate' Mail on Sunday
Author Bio
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland.