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.
Key facts about The Torment of Others
Val McDermid wrote The Torment of Others, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2004. The book has 465 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002005951 to find the main one.
The Torment of Others is book 4 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
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002005951
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006393795
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006394082