The Wire in the Blood - Softcover

McDermid, Val

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ISBN 10: 000649983X ISBN 13: 9780006499831

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

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Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind.

Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team air exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory - a theory that is ridiculed by the group... until one of their number is murdered and mutilated.

Could Bowman's outrageous Suspicion possibly be true? For Tony Hill, the murder of one of his team becomes a matter of personal revenge, and, joined again by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed.

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD-WINNING NOVEL THE MERMAIDS SINGING

'Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good' - Ruth Rendell

'Ye Gods, She's Good' - Colin Dexter

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

About the Author:

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community 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 lives in south Manchester.

Val McDermid has written five crime novels featuring Kate Brannigan, the third of which, Crack Down, was shortlisted for the CWA's Gold Dagger Award and the Anthony Award. The sixth in this series, Star Struck, will be published in the autumn. She has also written a non-fiction book, A Suitable Job for a Woman, lifting the lid on the world of female private detectives, and five novels featuring journalist sleuth Lindsay Gordon.

The Wire in the Blood again features Tony Hill, the clinical psychologist from in The Mermaids Singing, which won the 1995 CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

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