

The Wire in the Blood
Author: Val McDermid
Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes
Unabridged: 15 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 02/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Author: Val McDermid
Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes
Unabridged: 15 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 02/14/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Val McDermid is the author of many crime novels and has created the notable characters Lindsay Gordon, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill. Her novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 16 million copies. Visit her online at ValMcDermid.com.
I am so happy to have finally given Val McDermid’s stellar Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series a go. What a terrific writer Ms. McDermid is! I think what I like most is how much I learn from her, especially about profiling, even though these earlier books were written in the mid to later 1990s. Forensic p......more
Carol Jordan & Tony Hill book No. 2 'The Wire In The Blood' is the title the series became known as on TV. Another gripping read from McDermid, as Hill sets up a profiling unit that starts by digging into cold cases. Jordan meanwhile heading a new team investigates a suspected arsonist. The Hill cas......more
I thought the second novel in McDermid’s Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series was better than the first. Although Tony still has his psychological hang-ups, they are not emphasized as strongly in WIRE IN THE BLOOD, and consequently, Tony becomes a more appealing main protagonist. Tony is now training severa......more
1.5 stars Uninspired writing, loose plotting, unconvincing leaps in "intuitive" investigative work, reliance on coincidences to further hero's success, cliche interdepartmental strife, insulting portrayals of most of the police force in order to prop up the savant psychological profiler, half-hearte......more