Fever of the Bone
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780061986482
- Type
- novel
About this book
Fever of the Bone precedes The Retribution in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, published in 2009. Val McDermid continues the carefully researched, visceral style that made The Mermaids Singing a Gold Dagger winner over a decade earlier.
Key facts about Fever of the Bone
Fever of the Bone is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2009. It runs to 448 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Fever of the Bone. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061986482 to find the main one.
Fever of the Bone is book 6 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
Fever of the Bone is book 6 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows Beneath the Bleeding. It is followed by The Retribution. 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 9780061986482
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062010445
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356255552