Wire in the Blood
Young girls are disappearing nationwide
Dr Tony Hill sets his team a task: find a link between the cases.
Only one officer comes up with a theory, but it’s too wild… that is, until one of their number is murdered and mutilated.
Tony has started a game – one where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed. He has baited an aggressor whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind…
When a killer is hiding in plain sight
Who can stop them?
‘Truly frightening’ The Times
‘Sly and sophisticated, weaving the mundane with the stomach-churningly depraved’ Express
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland. Her novels have won international acclaim and a number of prestigious awards, including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Anthony Award for best novel, and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. Her thriller series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill has been adapted into the much-loved TV series Wire in the Blood.