The Wire in the Blood
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 495
- ISBN-13
- 9780002255912
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Wire in the Blood, book two of the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, appeared in 1997. Its title later gave the 2002-2008 British TV adaptation its name, a series that significantly raised the books' international profile.
Key facts about The Wire in the Blood
The Wire in the Blood is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 495 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Wire in the Blood. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002255912 to find the main one.
The Wire in the Blood is book 2 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 Wire in the Blood is book 2 in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series. It follows The Mermaids Singing. It is followed by The Last Temptation. 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 9780002255912
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780002257046
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006392927