The Mermaids Singing
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780001052482
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Mermaids Singing opens the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series in 1995 and won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, setting the template for Val McDermid's psychological-thriller-plus-procedural hybrid -- visceral violence seen partly from inside a killer's point of view.
Key facts about The Mermaids Singing
The Mermaids Singing is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 1995. It runs to 400 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Mermaids Singing. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780001052482 to find the main one.
The Mermaids Singing is book 1 of 11 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. The series has 11 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
The Mermaids Singing is book 1 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It is followed by The Wire in the Blood. 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 9780001052482
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002325455
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006392934