Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · Book 3

The Last Temptation

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
513
ISBN-13
9780002261098
Type
novel

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About this book

The Last Temptation, published in 2002, is the third Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel by Val McDermid. Tony and Carol's slow-burning tension continues unresolved as their careers become further entangled across investigations.

Its place in Tony Hill and Carol Jordan

The Last Temptation is book 3 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows The Wire in the Blood. It is followed by The Torment of Others. 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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