Insidious Intent
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 428
- ISBN-13
- 9780751568240
- Type
- novel
About this book
Insidious Intent arrived two years after Splinter the Silence, continuing the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series in 2017. It keeps the slow-burning tension between its two leads that McDermid has never rushed to resolve across the run.
Key facts about Insidious Intent
Insidious Intent is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2017. It runs to 428 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Insidious Intent. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751568240 to find the main one.
Insidious Intent is book 10 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
Insidious Intent is book 10 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows Splinter the Silence. It is followed by How the Dead Speak. 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 9780751568240
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751571677
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780802127167