Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · Book 2

The Wire in the Blood

by Val McDermid

Published
1 January 1997
Pages
495
ISBN-13
9780002255912
Type
novel

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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.

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…

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