Wire In The Blood

Description

Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill, hero of the hugely succesful television series 'The Wire in the Blood' 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 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 comes up with a concrete theory -- a theory that is ridiculed by the group! until one of their number is murdered and mutilated. For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter of personal revenge, and joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism -- a game where hunter and hunted can be all too easily reversed.

Reviews

Praise for The Wire in the Blood 'Terrific chiller from Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris' Guardian 'Truly frightening. McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' The Times 'Stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good' Ruth Rendell 'Tension-filled sequel to The Mermaids Singing... The story, handled with verve, wit and style, never flags' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday 'The plot is a cracker... You will shiver in your socks longer than usual after reaching the last page' Daily Mail

Author description

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 divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.