Cross and Burn
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780751551273
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cross and Burn, published in 2013, is the eighth Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel. Tony and Carol work through periods entirely apart in this installment, one of the strains McDermid puts their two-decade relationship through across the series.
Key facts about Cross and Burn
Cross and Burn is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 464 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Cross and Burn. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751551273 to find the main one.
Cross and Burn is book 8 of 11 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with The Mermaids Singing (1995).
Additionally, Val McDermid writes Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan and Karen Pirie, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, This Door of the Seas is the latest published Val McDermid book on file, from 6 August 2026.
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer whose career spans nearly four decades and five distinct series, making her one of the most prolific and structurally ambitious authors working in British crime fiction. See every Val McDermid book in order.
Its place in Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
Cross and Burn is book 8 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows The Retribution. It is followed by Splinter the Silence. See the full Tony Hill and Carol Jordan reading order.
Val McDermid's best-known series pairs Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist and profiler with a troubled personal history and an unnerving gift for thinking like the killers he hunts, with Carol Jordan, a police officer whose career and personal life become entangled with his across two decades of investigations. The opening book, The Mermaids Singing (1995), won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and set the template for the psychological-thriller-plus-procedural hybrid McDermid became known for: visceral…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751551273
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751554465
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802122049