Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · Book 9

Splinter the Silence

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 2015
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9780751561418
Type
novel

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Cover of Splinter the Silence

About this book

Splinter the Silence, running 416 pages, was published in 2015 as the ninth Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel, continuing Val McDermid's escalation of the pair's cases into wider questions about profiling and policing.

Its place in Tony Hill and Carol Jordan

Splinter the Silence is book 9 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows Cross and Burn. It is followed by Insidious Intent. 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…

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