Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · Book 4
The Torment of Others
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 465
- ISBN-13
- 9780002005951
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Torment of Others comes after The Last Temptation and before Beneath the Bleeding, published in 2004. McDermid keeps escalating the cases from serial murder investigations into wider questions about policing and the psychology of violence.
Its place in Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
The Torment of Others is book 4 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows The Last Temptation. It is followed by Beneath the Bleeding. 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
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