The Mermaids Singing - Softcover

McDermid, Val

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006493580 ISBN 13: 9780006493587

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder...

Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were behind bars. This one's different - this one's on the loose.

In the northern town of Bradfield four men had been found mutilated and tortured. Fear gripped the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer. A man with more than enough sexual problems of his own, Tony himself becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills where he has to use every once of his professional skill and personal nerve to survive.

A tense, brilliantly written psychological thriller, The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.

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Review:

This sadistic, twisted yet intriguingly ingenious thriller garnered Val McDermid Britain's top crime-fiction award, the Gold Dagger, which only proves it's not as genteel a nation as we've been led to believe. The Mermaids Singing follows a killer who thrives on finding ever more inventive ways to seduce and torture sexually confused young men and records their death struggles digitally to market them as interactive home movies.

From the Publisher:

'Compelling and shocking' Minette Walters

'Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' - Lucretia Stewart, Guardian

'A superb psychological thriller' - Cosmopolitan

'Truely, horribly good' - Mail on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0006493580
• ISBN 13: 9780006493587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304