Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · Book 1
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.
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