Splinter the Silence
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9780751561418
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Splinter the Silence
Val McDermid wrote Splinter the Silence, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2015. The book has 416 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751561418 to find the main one.
Splinter the Silence is book 9 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
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751561418
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751561425
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751563078